This book examines the trends and motivations of human capital flows from India to Southeast Asia. Focusing in particular on Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, the three largest ASEAN trading partners with India, it provides an analysis of Indian labor in a variety of sectors including the IT sector, academia, banking, oil and gas.

Many maintain that the arrival of computers networked across sovereign borders and physical barriers is a liberating force that will produce a global dialogue of liberal hues but this book argues that this dominant paradigm needs to be supplemented by the perspective of alterity in the impact of Information Technology in different regions. Local experts draw upon a range of Asian cases to demonstrate how alterity, defined here as a condition of privileging the hitherto marginal and subterranean aspects of a capitalist world order through the capabilities of information and communications...