ABSTRACT
India is the second-largest country to send students abroad, following China. The number of Indian students studying abroad has quadrupled in the past 14 years. The purpose of this chapter is to analyse how international education, student migration, and migrant brokers are connected, based on the experiences of educational specialists and migrant recruiters. This study on Indian students and migrant recruiters highlights the diverse qualifications, interests, and motives for moving overseas and subsequently supplies the host community with both unskilled and skilled work power. The chapter examines the often overlooked underbelly of the relationship between student migrants and migrant recruiters, as well as the status dynamics and divisions along class, ethnic, and international lines. The chapter investigates the interaction between the complex web of migration facilitation and migrants’ agency, which allows for and creates new migration corridors.
