CONTENTS
List of Tables ix
List of Box and Figures xiii
List of Abbreviations xv
Preface xix
Acknowledgements xxiii
1. Children'Left Behind'Negotiating Parental Migration:
Preliminary Results from a State-Wide Survey 1
S. Irudaya Rajan and Aparna Nair
2. Voice of the Parents: Left Behind 16
Meera Balarajan
3. Ways of Ageing and the Meaning of Death:
Transnational Families and Ageing Parents Shaping
Intergenerational Solidarity 36
Mathilde Plard
4. Life-Long Mobilities and its Impact on the Elderly 48
Manja Bomhoff
5. Impact of Migration on the Elderly: The Kerala Experience 67
K. C. Zachariah and S. Irudaya Rajan
6. There is No Feeling of [Belongingness]; in India
tWe Know Everybody': Daily and Social Life Experiences
of Older Indian Immigrants in the United States 89
Karuna Sharma and Candace L. Kemp
7. Economic Impact of Migration on the Family:
The Case of International Female Labour Migration 105
R. S. Reshmi and Sayeed Unisa
8. Husbands' Out-Migration and Familial Support
at Origin: An Insight on Left-Behind Wives 123
Sujata Ganguly and Sayeed Unisa
9. Adapting, Adjusting and Accommodating: Social Costs
of Migration to Saudi Arabia 139
S. Irudaya Rajan and Jolin Joseph
10. Transnational Masculinity: Indian Nurses' Husbands
in Ireland 154 Marie Percot
11. Migration, Remittance, and Contraceptive Use in India 174 Apoorva Jadhav
12. Peasant Migrations and Transition Costs:
An Exploratory Analysis 192
R. Vijay
13. Nurse Emigration from Kerala: 'Brain Circulation'
or 'Trap'? 206
Margaret Walton-Roberts and S. Irudaya Rajan
14. Protecting Indian Migrant Workers through Bilateral
Agreements and MoUs: Are They Enough? 224
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
15. Facilitating Skilled Mobility under Preferential
Arrangements 252
Rupa Chanda
16. Capitalist Development and the Informalization
of Labour Markets in India 270
Moushumi Basu
17. Global Crisis and the Return of Indian Emigrant Workers from West Asia: Findings of a Survey of Return Emigrants in Kerala 283
B. A. Prakash
18. Mobility of Women Workers from South Asia to the Gulf:
Stakeholders' Responses 296
Rakkee Thimothy
19. Remittances to India: Performance, Relative Stability
and Current Research Concerns 310
Milly Sil
About the Editor 326
Notes on Contributors 327
Index 331
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