Table of Contents

1. The women who paved the way: at the beginning of Indian nurses’ migration

Marie Percot



2. Decision-Making of International Migration: A Case Study of Indian Nurses in New Zealand

Yuko Tsujita, Hisaya Oda and S Irudaya Rajan



3. Analysing Health professional Mobility from India to Canada

Ayona Bhattacharjee



4. Becoming a Migrant Health Care worker: Interrogating Gender and Migration

Shruti Gupta



5. Beyond the Caring Obligation: Indian Nurses Negotiating Nursing Care and Migration

Neha Adsul and Rohit Shah



6. Indian-EU Healthcare workforce migration in data, 2010-2020

Gunjan Sondhi



7. An Analysis of Nurses’ Intention not to Migrate: Evidence from Nurses in Tamil Nadu

Hisaya Oda, Yuko Tsujita and S Irudaya Rajan



8. Health Worker Mobility from India: Trends and Opportunities for International Cooperation

Rupa Chanda and Sudeshna Ghosh



9. The transmutation of care and emotional labour for a technologically advanced workplace: A case of Indian nurse migration

Neha Adsul



10. India and the global provision of health professionals: Recent developments and potential policy responses

Margaret Walton-Roberts and S Irudaya Rajan



11. Aspirations of Health Professionals in India for Migration Abroad: A Pre-Covid and Covid-time Comparison of Nurses

Binod Khadria and Shekhar Tokas



12. South-South migration: Southern interpretations of a Northern discourse

Themrise Khan



13. Non-payment of Wages among Gulf returnees in the first wave of COVID 19

S Irudaya Rajan and C S Akhil



14. Do remittances affect labour supply decisions at a household level in India?

Amaani Bashir



15. COVID 19 and International Migrants: Results from Post-Flood Migrant Survey in Kerala

S Irudaya Rajan and Roshan R Menon



16. Internal Migrant Enumeration and Service Provision: A Municipal Governance Approach

Ananta Kukreja and Asmeeta Das Sharma



17. Shutdown Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic times in Tamil Nadu

S Irudaya Rajan and Bernard D Sami



18. Understanding Economic Well-Being of the Elderly Return Migrants in India

Pinak Sarkar and Himanshu Chaurasia



19. Emerging Relationship between Migration and Development in West Bengal

Jyoti Parimal Sarkar



20. Migration, Remittances and Welfare in Rural Maharashtra

Bhupesh Gopal Chintamani



21. Drivers of Economic and Social Change: The Impact of Indian Workers to the Gulf

Shibinu S

India Migration Report 2022 is one of the first volumes to focus comprehensively on Indian health professionals’ migration. The essays in the volume discuss the reasons, challenges and opportunities that daunt and prompt health professionals to migrate within and outside India.

This volume:

• Explores the history of migration of health professionals, especially nurses from India;

• Focuses in economic and social drivers of migration among health professionals;

• Examines shifting patterns in migration as well as emergence of new destinations for migrants;

• Studies the economic and social impact of COVID-19 among migrant health professionals;

• Highlights the influence of remittances on rural economies in India.

Timely, data-driven and drawing on exhaustive fieldwork, the volume looks at Indian health professionals in North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and South Asia. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of development studies, public health, public policy, economics, demography, sociology and social anthropology, and migration and diaspora studies.