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This book is intended primarily to help newcomers in the field of research on international migration using data from large-scale field surveys. It includes methods of conducting field surveys, estimating migration, and analysing migration trends, selectivity and differentials; ways to assess the impact of migration compared to other demographic, socio-economic phenomenon; and examines the social cost of migration on members of family left behind - women, children and the elderly. -- Prologue.

1. Introduction -- 2. Basic concepts and definitions -- 3. CDS Kerala migration surveys -- 4. Sampling methods followed in Kerala migration surveys -- 5. Migration : estimation and basic analysis -- 6. Remittances : estimation and basic analysis -- 7. Migration and human resources -- 8. Economic impact of migration and remittances -- 9. Return migration -- 10. Migration and the elderly -- 11. Emigration and women -- 12. Migration and children -- 13. Panel data analysis -- 14. Summary.