South Asia Migration Report 2024

S Irudaya Rajan is Chair of the International Institute of Migration and Development, India and also chair of the World Bank KNOMAD working group on internal migration and urbanization. He is the editor of two Rouledge Series - India Migration Report (since 2010) and South Asia Migration Report (since 2017) and Founding Editor in Chief, Migration and Development (Sage). Rajan has published extensively in national and international journals on demographic, social, economic, political and psychological implications of international migration and coordinated nine large-scale migration surveys in Kerala since 1998 (with K C Zachariah), Goa (2008), Punjab (2009), Tamil Nadu (2015) and instrumental for Gujarat (2011), Jharkhand (2023) and Odisha (2023). As a princiapl investigator, Rajan is currently coorindinaing the Kerala Migration Survey 2023 with the financial support of the Department of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs, Government of Kerala throuhg Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Kerala.

1. South Asia Migration: Opportunities and Vulnerabilities 2. International Migration of South Asia 3. Migration and Social Mobility in South Asia 4. Afghan Diaspora Remittances: A Lifeline for Families and (Potential) Contributions to Development 5. Reintegration of Nepali returnee migrants: An analysis of policies, approaches and practices 6. Migration and Integration Policies in Nepal 7. Social Backgrounds, Capitals and Risks in Youth Migration from Bangladesh 8. The struggle between law and life- the Rohingya in Bangladesh 9. Where have all the climate (change) refugees gone? 10. Opportunities and Vulnerabilities of Internal Migrants in Bangladesh Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic 11. Migration and Changing Gender Relations: Exploring Translocal social resilience in the Indian Sundarbans