India migration report 2015: gender and migration

Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- 1 Gender-based immigration visa? On rationality of a legislative innovation -- 2 Migrant women at the discourse-policy nexus: Indian domestic workers in Saudi Arabia -- 3 Stepping into the man's shoes: emigrant domestic workers as bread winners and the gender norm in Kerala -- 4 Economic migration of women: challenges and policy with reference to Indian emigration to the Gulf -- 5 Addressing the missing link: women domestic workers migrating from South Asia to the Gulf -- 6 Vulnerability of women in international marriage migration -- 7 International mobility of skilled women: overview of trends and issues -- 8 Indian international students: a gender perspective -- 9 Gendered mobilities: negotiating educational strategies in Kerala -- 10 Reducing vulnerabilities of 'women in migration': cross-border migration experience within South Asia -- 11 Adivasi women in India's migration story -- 12 Gender dimensions of migration in urban India -- 13 Confined to the margins: female migrant workers in urban areas -- 14 Understanding female migration pattern in India: exploring the driving forces -- 15 The missing men: sex ratios and migration -- 16 Survival, struggle and the promise of a new future: living and working conditions of migrant workers in Kerala -- 17 Health-seeking behaviour among the interstate migrant labourers -- 18 From Kerala to Kerala via the Gulf: emigration experiences of return emigrants -- 19 Transnational flows: extent, patterns and implications for Gujarat -- 20 Wage differentials between Indian migrant workers in the Gulf and non-migrant workers in India -- 21 The disposable people: irregular and undocumented migrants -- Index.