Overview
- Contributes to a growing area of concern on the link between skilled migration and development
- Focuses on the under-researched area of skilled mobility between India and the EU
- Provides important policy directives for both home and host countries to deal with developmental impacts of skilled migration
- Addresses important questions related to the socio-economic effects of return migration
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Dynamics of Asian Development (DAD)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
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Context and Trends
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Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
Keywords
- Backwards knowledge transfer
- Developmental impacts on home country
- Developmental impacts on host country
- Diaspora and development
- Global competition for talent
- Globalization of higher education
- Indian skilled professionals in Europe
- International mobility of scientists
- International student migration
- Investment-linked skilled migration
- Migrant experiences in host countries
- Migration between India and the European Union
- Migration policy in Europe
- Repercussions of high-skill mobility
- Return migration and development
- Reverse migration
- Scientific diasporas
- Skilled migrants as agents of development
- Skilled return migrants in India
- Women skilled migrants and development
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gabriela Tejada is Senior Scientist at Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where she leads the research line on scientific diasporas, migration and development. Her research agenda focuses on the links between skilled migration and home country development and on diaspora transnationalism. She has studied countries such as Colombia, South Africa, India, Moldova and Tunisia. Her research has been funded by grants from institutions such as the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Swiss Network for International Studies. At EPFL, she is involved in the promotion of scientific cooperation activities with emerging and developing countries. She obtained her primary degree in International Relations from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and she holds a PhD Cum Laude in Political Science from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona in Spain.
Uttam Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of Economics at the Institute for Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK), India. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Calcutta. He served as Guest Lecturer with the Department of Economics at Vidyasagar University in Midnapore, West Bengal and at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Prior to this, he was attached to the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta (CSSSC). His current work at IDSK is on Indian industrial development, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Indian research and development. He is also in the process of editing a book on the development of capital goods in India. His main areas of research include the machine tool industry in India and the scope for self-reliance, IPRs and India, the Indian patent system, Indo-Australian economic relations, migration, child labour and the education of children in India, micro-finance and poverty eradication, local governments anddevelopment.
BinodKhadria is Professor of Economics at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi; he is also the Director of International Migration and Diaspora Studies (IMDS) Project. His published works on migration include The migration of knowledge workers: second-generation effects of India's brain drain (Sage, 1999) and several research papers published by the ILO, the OECD, IRD-France, Institute of Developing Economies-Japan External Trade Organisation (IDE-JETRO) and the Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM). He is a member of the editorial boards of several international journals. With the India Migration Report 2009: Past, Present and the Future Outlook, he launched the IMR series, followed by India Migration Report 2010-2011: The Americas, published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press, New York.
Christiane Kuptsch is Senior Specialist in Migration Policy at the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Before taking up this position, she was Senior Research Officer at the ILO's International Institute for Labour Studies; she also worked for the ILO-linked International Social Security Association. She is a Political Science graduate of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and she also studied law at the University of Hamburg in Germany. Her publications include articles on the migration of students and trainees, the protection of migrant workers, temporary foreign-worker programmes, and the effects of the economic crisis on migration policies and she has also edited books on migrant recruitment agents, the increasing competition for global talent, and the internationalization of labour markets. She is the co-author of Managing Labour Migration in the Twenty-First Century (Yale University Press, 2006).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indian Skilled Migration and Development
Book Subtitle: To Europe and Back
Editors: Gabriela Tejada, Uttam Bhattacharya, Binod Khadria, Christiane Kuptsch
Series Title: Dynamics of Asian Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1810-4
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-1809-8Published: 22 April 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3506-4Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-1810-4Published: 07 April 2014
Series ISSN: 2198-9923
Series E-ISSN: 2198-9931
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 332
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Population Economics, Regional and Cultural Studies, Social Policy