Internal Migration Within South Asia

This book critically discusses the multi-dimensional contemporary issues within the ambit of the driving forces, mechanisms, vulnerability, and opportunities of the intra-region human movement in South Asia. It covers different dimensions of cross-border migration within South Asia as well as internal migration particularly in India, reflecting upon both voluntary and forced movements. It traces the trajectory and past trends in migration in the South Asian countries. It evaluates the vulnerability of refugees and stateless vis-à-vis state policies. Issues regarding Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh, Nepalese immigration to India, the crisis around Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, Afghan returnee refugees from Pakistan and Iran, resettlement of Bhutanese refugees are explored in the chapters. It also analyzes the impact on wage inequality due to emigration, the crucial role of social capital in migration decisions, and socio-economic vulnerabilities of women migrants in India. This book provides a clear understanding of international and internal migration in South Asia for students and academics, and a valuable resource for policy-makers and planners in development studies, regional development, and South Asian studies.

Autorentext

Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Behala College, Kolkata, India. She obtained her Ph.D. from Calcutta University, India, in 2005. Her papers have been published in reputed journals such as Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Energy Policy, The Environmentalist, Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, to name a few. She has served the University of Calcutta as Visiting Faculty. She has also co-authored two books titled Revisiting the Informal Sector: A General Equilibrium Approach and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Evaluation (Springer). She received the Emerald Literati Award from Emerald Publishing, UK, for Outstanding Paper in 2019.

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Preface

Section I: Conceptualising the Complexities in Cross-border Movements

1. Perspectives on Intra-Region Migration in South Asia A Reorientation

Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay

2. Refugees in South Asia: Political Membership, Nation-building Projects, and Securitization of Human Flows

Shibashis Chatterjee & Udayan Das

3. Ordeal of Statelessness in South Asia Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury & Ambar Kumar Ghosh Section II: Refugee Crisis, Repatriation and Resettlement: The Political Imbroglio

4. The Rohingya Crisis: A Long Road Ahead

Trijita Gonsalves & Abhijit Pathak

5. Statelessness, Marginality and Influx of the Rohingyas: Impacts on Environment and Host Communities of Bangladesh

Mesbah Kamal *& *Mrittika Kamal

6. Caught in the Crossfire: A Historical Case Study of Sri Lanka's Tamil Refugees in India

Sreya Maitra

7. Challenges to Returnees in Afghanistan: A Post-2014 Analysis

Arnab Dutta 8. The Impact of Resettlement on the Bhutanese Refugees: A Critical Reflection Wangchuk Dukpa & Ishani Naskar 9. Pandemic and India-Nepal Migration Sanjay Pulipaka & Mohit Musaddi

Section III: Socio-economic Perspectives of Internal Migration in India

10. In The Midst Of Dire Hopelessness: An Analysis of Poverty, Social Capital and Migration Behaviour of Kolkata's Rural In-Migrants

Saswati Chaudhuri

11. Health and Life of Seasonal Migrant Women Workers Engaged in Sugarcane Harvest in Maharashtra, India

Abdul C P Jaleel & Aparajita Chattopadhyay

12. Male Out-migration and Left behind Women in Uttar Pradesh, India

Bhaswati Das and Sarda Prasad

13. Emigration, Economic Reform and Wage Distribution in a Small Economy

Biswajit Mandal & Alaka Shree Prasad