COVID-19 Return Migration Phenomena

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 urbanisation. He is the editor of two Routledge Series – India Migration Report (since 2010) and South Asia Migration Report (since 2017) and Founding Editor in Chief, Migration and Development (Sage). Jean-Louis Arcand is professor of economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, as well as an affiliate professor at the Université Mohammed VI Polytechnic in Rabat and currently President, Global Development Network. He is a Founding Fellow of the European Development Research Network (EUDN), a Senior Fellow at the Fondation pour les études et recherches en développement international (FERDI) and has been a Visiting Professor at Renmin University of China in Beijing, Universidade Federal da Bahia and several universities in Africa and the Caribbean.

Introduction—COVID-19 return migration phenomena: experiences from South and Southeast Asia 1. Return migration and labour market outcomes in South Asia: a CGE exploration 2. The last straw? Experiences and future plans of returned migrants in the India-GCC corridor 3. The facts of return migration in the wake of COVID-19: a policy framework for reintegration of Pakistani workers 4. Foreign labour migration in Nepal in relation to COVID-19: analysis of migrants’ aspirations, policy response and policy gaps from disaster justice perspective 5. Disgraceful return: Gulf migration and shifting national narratives amid COVID-19 6. COVID-19 pandemic induced wage theft: evidence from Sri Lankan migrant workers 7. Should I stay or should I go? Analysing returnee overseas Filipino workers’ reintegration measures given the COVID-19 pandemic 8. Remembrances of things past: evidence from a twenty-year Kerala panel