The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

ISBN-13: 9780197586396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 296 str.

Rina Agarwala

Recenzje

For more than a century, India has sent migrants abroad to work; today, remittances from overseas workers make up one of the country's largest sources of foreign exchange. Yet, as Rina Agarwala points out in her remarkable new work, discussions of India's economic growth rarely acknowledge migrants' contributions, nor do they explore the way national and state policies continue to shape migrants' options, from Silicon Valley's highly-educated computer scientists, to construction workers packed into migrant hostels in the Middle East. Agarwala's carefully-researched, insightful analysis will change the way we think about India's diaspora, provoke new questions about how sending countries could protect workers abroad, and ensure their communities benefit from the 'development' that the migrants are supporting.

O autorze

Rina Agarwala is Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Agarwala is the award-winning author of Informal Labor, Formal Politics and Dignified Discontent in India (2013) and coeditor of Whatever Happened to Class? Reflections from South Asia (2016).