ABSTRACT

The world economy is characterized by a very high level of integration. This integration or globalization, as it is more popularly known, is to a large extent contributed by increased trade in commodities, services, capital and indeed in movement of natural persons across nations of the world. According to the International Organization of Migration (2008), there are more than 200 million migrants around the world today and there is enough evidence to show that the rate of international migration has actually increased at a time when the world is getting more globalized. The total number of citizens that have emigrated from India is about 10 million (Ratha and Xu 2008) which works out to just about a per cent of her population.