Kerala Migration Survey 2016

Rajan, S. Irudaya; Zachariah, K. C.

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“…In order to put this into context, between April 2013 and March 2014, Kerala received remittances of Rs 72,680 crores from Keralites living overseas, including those in Middle Eastern nations. However, the number of households moving to Kerala are from these same nations [42].…”

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Review of Literature Related to Labour Migration: Types, Causes, and Impacts

Aswani

Bhat

2022

IJMTS

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Purpose: Economies of migration have always been an important topic of research. Migration of labour has, undoubtedly, some impact on employment, labour market, rural development, social welfare, labour management, migrant networks etc. A good understanding of the labour force is imperative for framing appropriate labour market policies and inclusive economic growth policies. Analysing the extent, and trend of labour migration policies as they influence upon labour market and economic development of a country. Design/Methodology/Approach: Descriptive Research was used in this study, which is focused on secondary data sources. Secondary data is gathered through books, newspapers, journals, articles, and government websites. Findings: Migration has always been an important factor in population expansion and economic development, according to a thorough examination of the literature. People have moved across national and international borders in search of better lifestyles. Originality/Value: This paper considers the issues and impacts of labour migration on national development. It presents the trends, patterns and causes and impact of labour migration at the international, national and state levels of Kerala as discussed in the literature. Paper type: Review of Literature.

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Section: Economic Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of Literature Related to Labour Migration: Types, Causes, and Impacts

Aswani

Bhat

2022

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“…The UAE had also introduced the Emiratization of its labor market, limiting its focus on the public sector (Khadri, 2018). Apart from these nationalization policies, low migrant wages, increasing cost of living in the Gulf (Malit and Naufal, 2016; Ratha and Ganesh, 2019) and rising opportunities in India led to a sharp decline in Indian low-skilled migration to the Gulf (Rajan and Zachariah, 2020). As noted above, Indian annual ECR migration to the Gulf declined significantly from 817,000 migrants in 2013 to just 334,000 in 2019 (MEA, 2020).…”

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“…On the other hand, as a key source country of both low-skilled and high-skilled migrant workers to Saudi Arabia, India is expected to be impacted by these labor market reforms. Moreover, the issue of Indian high-skilled migration to Saudi Arabia has never attracted the attention of researchers and policy makers, who otherwise have focused mostly on matters pertaining to low-skilled migration (Rajan and Zachariah, 2020; Calabrese, 2020).…”

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The impact of “Nitaqat” on Indian high-skilled migration to Saudi Arabia

Potnuru

Arora

2022

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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“Nitaqat,” the labor market nationalization policy of Saudi Arabia, aims to increase the employment of Saudi nationals by restricting the entry of foreign workers in the country. Data from a sample survey of Indian professionals working in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was analyzed using Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) Wilks’ lambda and Tukey Honestly Significant Difference tests. The findings from the exploratory study suggest that the Indian professionals who were laid off due to the policy are statistically significant between the sectors but not between the “Nitaqat” zones and the size of enterprises. The policy impact on new recruitments of Indian professionals is statistically significant between Nitaqat zones but not between sectors and the size of enterprises. The findings indicate that the opportunities for Indian high-skilled migration to Saudi Arabia are constrained in the construction sector and in yellow zone companies, while employment prospects remain in the banking and finance, education and IT and telecom sectors and in blue zone firms.

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“…Moreover, since Gulf worker migration touches virtually every household in the state, Kerala was an exceedingly rich location for my fieldwork. The 2018 Kerala Migration Survey, for example, found that 67% of households had at least one member living in a Gulf state (Rajan 2018). Migration from Kerala took hold in the 1950s amid the growing demand for manual labor in Gulf construction, surged in the 1970s and 1980s with the growth of the oil industry, and later extended into professional fields, including medicine, sales, and technology (Gardner 2011;Miller 1992).…”

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“We Become Capable of Handling Everything”: Gender and Gulf Migration in Kerala, South India

Gerry¹

2021

JUE

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Women have a uniquely gendered experience with worker migration from Kerala, South India to the Gulf, a phenomenon which touches virtually every household in this state. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kerala, this article examines the intersections of gender and migration; I argue that migration fuels significant social change in terms of gender expectations and the role of women as economic agents. My fieldwork reveals that women work abroad due to personal circumstances and to conform to local ideas about modernity. Migrants’ wives also experience increased autonomy in their daily lives. These two categories of women, migrant women and the wives of male migrants, are attuned to others’ perceptions of their roles vis-à-vis migration. Despite occasional negative feedback, women report that they are empowered by worker migration. This project builds on scholarship examining the status of women in Kerala (Eapen and Kodoth 2003), the experiences of migrant spouses (Osella 2016), and female Christian nurses’ Gulf migration (Percot 2006). I extend this work by analyzing the personal narratives of individual women who work in the Gulf, head their own households in Kerala, and experience stigmatization because of emigration. Finally, I explored the broader implications of migration for the lifestyles and aspirations of women in Kerala.

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Kerala Migration Survey 2016

Cited by 25 publications

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Review of Literature Related to Labour Migration: Types, Causes, and Impacts

Review of Literature Related to Labour Migration: Types, Causes, and Impacts

The impact of “Nitaqat” on Indian high-skilled migration to Saudi Arabia

“We Become Capable of Handling Everything”: Gender and Gulf Migration in Kerala, South India

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