ABSTRACT
Families are one of the main factors that significantly affect students’ decisions to seek an international education. This review explores how family factors affect migratory populations and migration trends. Migration is often viewed in Western literature as a phenomenon of the nuclear family; however, in the Indian context, parents and extended family are also quite present. The chapter goes into further detail on how family efforts made in the place of origin impact how prospective migrants operate which is heavily influenced by power dynamics and family hierarchies. We also discover that there are a lot of gaps and discrepancies in the existing literature. The goal of this work is to inspire more research and aid policymakers in their efforts to understand the important effects of the family, particularly in the Indian context.
