Table of Contents
1. Indian student migration: How the influx of Indian students in Canada has exposed barriers to health access

Shivajan Sivapalan and Yasir Khan



2. International Student Migration: Family Mediated Migration Trajectories

S Irudaya Rajan, Anand P Cherian and Naurin P Alencherry



3. Complex Pathways of Indian Highly Skilled Migrants and International Students to Canada

Anna Triandafyllidou, Ashika Niraula and Rica Agnes Castaneda



4. “They take the money from Kran and give it to Karen": Education-Migration and grassroots advocacy for Punjabi International Students

Lilach Marom and Balraj S Kahlon



5. International Student Mobility: The Role of Brokers

S Irudaya Rajan and Anand P Cherian



6. “To Whom should I Complain”? Indian International Students’ Differential Recruitments in Greater Toronto Area Colleges and the Role of Agencies

Sutama Ghosh and Raymond M Garrison



7. Challenges Facing International College Students in Canada

Marshia Akbar



8. Navigating an education through the Pandemic- The (Im)Mobilities of Aspiration among Student Migrants of Kerala

Aparna Eswaran and Chinchu C



9. Motivations among Indian students to study medicine in Eastern Europe countries

H Arokkiaraj and S Irudaya Rajan



10. The Mental Health Struggle of International Students

Yasir Khan and Shivajan Sivapalan



11. Recruitment Experiences of International Indian Students

S Irudaya Rajan, Varsha Joshi and Rohit Irudayarajan



12. Brothers in the Kitchen: a multidisciplinary look at migration through live-documentary

Cyrus Sundar Singh



13. Role of Household Socio-Economic Status in Determining the Impact of Remittances on Human Capital Investment

Anu Abraham



14. COVID-19 and Return Migrant Construction Workers in Mumbai

Sharadbala Joshi, Dhaval Monani, Asima Sahu and Anurita Bhatnagar



15. Gulf Return Migrants in India: Socio-economic Reintegration of Gulf Returnees in Rural West Bengal

Snigdha Banerjee and T V Sekher



16. Do individuals' life cycle earnings and consumption differ in migrant and non-migrant households in rural areas?

Archana K Roy, Sapana Ngangbam and Manoj Paul



17. Social Enterprise: The Impact of covid-19 on migrant communities within India

George D. John, Michael Snowden and Jamie P. Halsall



18. A Computational Study of Indian Interstate Migration through the Gender Lens

Niveditta, Mayurakshi Chaudhuri and Chiranjoy Chattopadhyay



19. Migration and Urban Informal Labour Market: A Study of Labour Addas in the City of Hyderabad

Poulomi Bhattacharya and K Jafar



20. Transition from Low to High Shades of Precarity among Migrants in Tamil Nadu

Nandini Ramamurthy

The India Migration Report 2023: Student Migration is one of the first books that attempts to comprehensively explore the various nuances of Indian international student migration factoring in multiple factors that influence the migration journey of Indian students. It also looks into other migration stories including internal and international returnees, various impacts of remittances, and migration in the context of the pandemic.

This volume:

Inspect the factors driving the student migration from India, accounting for both the historical and current happenings influencing these factors. Following the pandemic, the book highlights the challenges faced by Indian international students in accessing health care and other related services which goes on to push them into vulnerable situations
Outlines the reasoning behind Indian students' decision to emigrate and how families play an important role in influencing key migration decisions made by students and the different patterns of student migration observed in India
Examines the employment challenges experienced, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic, by the highly skilled Indian migrants and Indian international students
Describes the role that recruitment and consultancy agencies play in international student mobility (ISM) and examines the intricate relationship between migrant agencies and migration facilitation
Investigates the psychological, economic and social challenges faced by Indian international students during their migration journey both during and after the completion of their course abroad
Provides a critical overview of the conditions of both internal and international returnees to different parts of India
Studies the impact of remittances on migrant households including their consumption patterns and human capital investment
Analyses interstate migration networks through the prism of gender and critically assesses how gender migration patterns have altered throughout time