Description
Book SynopsisIndia Migration Report 2022 is one of the first volumes to focus comprehensively on Indian health professionals' migration. The essays in the volume discuss the reasons, challenges and opportunities that daunt and prompt health professionals to migrate within and outside India.
This volume:
Explores the history of migration of health professionals, especially nurses from India;
Focuses in economic and social drivers of migration among health professionals;
Examines shifting patterns in migration as well as emergence of new destinations for migrants;
Studies the economic and social impact of COVID-19 among migrant health professionals;
Highlights the influence of remittances on rural economies in India.
Timely, data-driven and drawing on exhaustive fieldwork, the volume looks at Indian health professionals in North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and South Asia. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of develo
Table of Contents
1. The women who paved the way: at the beginning of Indian nurses’ migration 2. Decision-Making of International Migration: A Case Study of Indian Nurses in New Zealand 3. Analysing Health professional Mobility from India to Canada 4. Becoming a Migrant Health Care worker: Interrogating Gender and Migration 5. Beyond the Caring Obligation: Indian Nurses Negotiating Nursing Care and Migration 6. Indian-EU Healthcare workforce migration in data, 2010-2020 7. An Analysis of Nurses’ Intention not to Migrate: Evidence from Nurses in Tamil Nadu 8. Health Worker Mobility from India: Trends and Opportunities for International Cooperation 9. The transmutation of care and emotional labour for a technologically advanced workplace: A case of Indian nurse migration 10. India and the global provision of health professionals: Recent developments and potential policy responses 11. Aspirations of Health Professionals in India for Migration Abroad: A Pre-Covid and Covid-time Comparison of Nurses 12. South-South migration: Southern interpretations of a Northern discourse 13. Non-payment of Wages among Gulf returnees in the first wave of COVID 19 14. Do remittances affect labour supply decisions at a household level in India? 15. COVID 19 and International Migrants: Results from Post-Flood Migrant Survey in Kerala 16. Internal Migrant Enumeration and Service Provision: A Municipal Governance Approach 17. Shutdown Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic times in Tamil Nadu 18. Understanding Economic Well-Being of the Elderly Return Migrants in India 19. Emerging Relationship between Migration and Development in West Bengal 20. Migration, Remittances and Welfare in Rural Maharashtra 21. Drivers of Economic and Social Change: The Impact of Indian Workers to the Gulf
