ABSTRACT
For a country like India, labour migration and remittances are synonym to economic development. The Indian migration to the West is diametrically opposite a phenomenon to its migration to the Gulf countries. After the global crisis, wage differentials among the unskilled labourers between India and the Gulf have narrowed down considerably due to the changing labour market situations in both countries. The chapter highlights the various aspects of labour migration and the glaring findings on the wage differentials, the costs of migration and the remittances and the savings helps people reiterate on the fact that the attraction towards the Gulf countries for the Indian labour. It explores the data collected from internal migrants and non-migrants in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, Intending migrants, return migrants, and emigrants in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia. The wage differentials between the Indian jobs and the same jobs in the Gulf have considerably narrowed down.
