India Migration Report 2022

S. Irudaya Rajan is Chairman of the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD), India and chair of the KNOMAD (the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development) thematic working group on internal migration and urbanization, World Bank. Earlier, he was Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, and Chair, Research Unit on International Migration (RUIM), funded by the erstwhile Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Government of India (2006-2016). Dr Rajan is the Founding Editor in Chief of Migration and Development (Taylor and Francis), Refugee Survey Quarterly (Editorial Board member) and the editor of two Routledge series - India Migration Report and South Asia Migration Report. He has published extensively in national and international journals on demographic, social, economic, political and psychological implications of international migration. He has also coordinated eight major large-scale migration surveys in Kerala since 1998 (with K C Zachariah), Goa (2008), Punjab (2009), Tamil Nadu (2015) and instrumental for Gujarat (2011).

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