Producing hi-tech: globalization, the state and migrant subjects

Which migration, what development? Unsettling the edifice of migration and development

“…It forgets that medical migration is confi gured by a range of other practices with longer histories. Thus, the migration of doctors from India to the UK (Mensah et al, 2005) has to be placed not only within the context of differences in wages and working conditions, but also in the subalternisation of local medical practices during colonial periods (Forbes, 1994); the adoption of the language of science by those in the class-caste hierarchy who led independence movements (Kamat et al, 2003) and their effective transposition to arbiters of modernity in decolonising nations (Prakash, 1999); and the practices of imperial institutional hierarchies such as Royal Colleges in medical practice that still hold sway in defi ning medical knowledge (Aluwihare, 2002) and as international credentialling organisations (but see Raghuram, 2009). Through adopting a genealogical approach that keeps in mind the complex matrix of rationalities and subjectifi cations that produce the subject of brain drain, we can take account of some of these different temporalities and hence narrate a different story of brain drain.…”

Caste, kinship and the realisation of ‘American Dream’: high-skilled Telugu migrants in the U.S.A.

“…On the other hand, studies on high-skilled migrants presuppose that knowledge workers depend on formal channels to migrate, rarely interrogating how social conditions in the home region create high-skilled migrant categories who deploy various forms of capital by virtue of their upper-caste, middle-class location. Further, some literature see skilled migrants merely as 'agents' of development in their home countries (Faist 2008;Kapur 2010), or as cog in the wheel of neo-liberalism/capitalism (Kamat, Mir, and Mathew 2004). This article is an attempt to bring these two groups of literature together to examine the role of caste and kinship in creating and sustaining high-skilled migration.…”

“…Apart from these public institutes of higher education, Coastal Andhra was one of the first regions in India where private engineering and medical colleges began to flourish in the 1970s, often funded by wealthy members of the dominant castes (cf. Kamat, Mir, and Mathew 2004) like the Kammas. Seats in these colleges were coveted by students, and technically anyone who could pay the high fees commanded by these colleges could get admission but, in reality, preference would be given to students belonging to the same caste as the college management.…”

Action and cognition in task oriented coping: Factor structure and internal consistency of the CISS-21 with an Indian sample

“…A highly globalized work force from the service sector participated in the study. This sample, though being Indian in origin and geography works in a globalized workplace that is greatly influenced by American cultural practices (Dickey, 2012;Kamat et al, 2004;Kundu, 2009;Mahajan, 1995;Nisbett, 2007;Rampal, 2001;Turiel, 2002). Peng and Nisbett (1999) This biculturalism might be a reason for the rather unique and bi-polar perception of the task-oriented coping dimension into both a cognitive-appraisal style (favored by the Indian culture) and an action-oriented solution seeking style (favored by the globalized urban employees).…”

“…They worked in various highly globalized and service-oriented workplaces including call-centers, hotels, law firms, insurance agencies, banks, hospitals, and software companies (Dickey, 2012;Golpelwar, 2011;Kamat, Mir, & Mathew, 2004;Kundu, 2009). After removing the cases with missing data, the sample consisted of 274 professionals.…”