India 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. A century of Indian migration to Canada: A choreography of challenges and changes 2. Growing Together: The Evolution of Indian Immigrants in Canada 3. The Canada-India Relationship: A historical understanding of political discontent and diaspora 4. Indian Women in Canada 5. “We know we have to work like a ‘donkey’ in Canada”: Employment Expectations and Experiences of Young Punjabis migrating to Canada 6. Indo-Canadians in Canadian Politics 7. The Growing Indian Diaspora in Ontario’s North 8. Economic Assimilation of Indians in Canada 9. Navigating Uncharted Trajectories: Skilled Indian Women Migrating to Canada 10. COVID-19 Challenges, Health and Wellness of the little India Community in Canada 11. Diaspora Dilemmas and Deadlocks: The Indian Immigration Flux and Struggled Survival in Canada 12. Model Minorities and Marriage Migration: Experiences of Indian migrant women in Canada 13. A short history of izzat among the Punjabi diaspora 14. Migration and Integration: Changing Realities and Evolving Perceptions 15. Punjabi Migration to northwestern British Columbia: Labour and the First Nations 16. Canadian Punjabi Diaspora 17. How Memory and Generation Shape South Asian Migration 18. Exploring the Canadian Market for Indian Health Workers 19. The Immigrant Policies of Canada and Racism: An Indian Experience 20. Migration of Adult Children and Left Behind Parent’s Health and Disability: Evidence from Tamil Nadu Migration Survey 2015 21. A New Path Forward: Leveraging Migration for Development