India and Migration
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- Migration and livelihoods within Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, India
- P. Deshingkar; D. Start / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- Seasonal and circular migration of labour for employment has become one of the most durable components of the livelihood strategies of people living in rural areas on India .This paper looks at why some groups within India have succee...
- Labour migration in Nepal is highly complex, but demands further analysis
- G. Gill / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- This paper discussesthe development of rapid appraisal mechanisms through an examination of seasonal labour migration in rural Nepal. The primary purpose of the study was to: test the methodology being used to develop a...
- Environmental disasters destroy livelihoods in Bangladesh, causing mass migration to India
- S. Alam / Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India, 2003
- Environmental crisis in the rural areas of developing countries is increasingly becoming an important cause of cross-border migration of population and South Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. Such movement of population in the ...
- Can the Indian diaspora in the United State play the role of facilitator between New Delhi and Washington?
- A. Gupta / Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2004
- As the Indian diaspora has begun to assert its financial and political power in the United States since the 1990’s, the Indian government has been developing a process of granting dual-citizenship to certain persons of Indian ori...
- Main characteristics of labour migration in Asia
- International Organization for Migration, 2003
- This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances. It presents a compendium of labour migration p...
- Rights for the world's evicted. Are development projects harming people they're meant to help?
- Theodore E. Downing / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- In the current decade, 10 million people a year have been displaced (forced to move) by development projects intended to improve their lives. The evidence is clear that such displacement, caused by large-scale dam, infrastructure and ...
- Timelines: how rural livelihoods are evolving in Nepal and India
- P. Blaikie; D. Seddon / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- How do the ways in which rural people make a living change over time? Ongoing studies by University of East Anglia researchers along with partner organisations in India and Nepal, are tracking the different ways in which rural people ...
- What policies should India adopt with regard to the diaspora so as to maximise her welfare and strategic goals?
- D. Kapur / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003
- With one of the largest pools of relatively low wage semi-skilled and skilled labour, India is poised as a critical of global sourcing of labour. How can India take advantage of these future trends, so as not only to maximise the welf...
- Dams, displacement and the disaffected in India
- Manthan,; K. Ghosh; R. Kumar / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- The displacement of peoples from areas where two large dams are being constructed under the Subarnarekha Multi-purpose Project (SMP),is the focus for this paper. Different organisations directed/are directing the movements in these tw...
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