S Irudaya Rajan, V J Varghese, M S Jayakumar

Dreaming Mobility and Buying Vulnerability

Overseas Recruitment Practices in India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is a pioneering attempt to explore the overseas labour recruitment system and practices in India, with its multiple layers and levels of alleged corruption and fraudulence, and to propose the principles of a new institution of emigration governance that ensures minimal social and transaction costs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781138660045
• ISBN-10: 1138660043
• Artikelnr.: 44826597

Autorenporträt

S. Irudaya Rajan is Chair Professor of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) Research Unit on International Migration, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. V. J. Varghese is Assistant Professor at Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. M. S. Jayakumar is Assistant Professor and Assistant Director at Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables, Figures and Abbreviations. Preface Introduction 1. Making
of the Institution 2. Process of Emigration: Mounting Costs and Paltry
Returns 3. Vulnerability, Intensity of Corruption and Institutional Failure
4. Between Unfettered and Controlled Informality: Testimonies of an
Enervated Institution 5. Summary and Recommendations Appendix I: Emigration
Act, 1922 Appendix II: Emigration Act, 1983 Appendix III: Emigration
(Amendment) Rules, 2009. About the Authors. Index.