Migration in South Asia: IMISCOE regional reader

This open access Regional Reader provides a contemporary look at the emerging challenges and issues facing South Asian migration amidst covid-19 and discusses a framework for a sustainable and cooperative migration from and within the region, which will impact both the economic and regional development of South Asia. The book draws a focus on this area through an interdisciplinary and holistic lens and follows the three broad areas of migration studies in South Asia: Governance and mobility, Family, health and demography, and Forced migration. It thereby covers a number of issues from South Asian countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and the Maldives. This book is a valuable resource for those who want to understand the dynamics of migration from the largest migrant-sending region in the world and one which will determine the shape of global migration patterns in the future.

Part 1. Governance and Mobility: Retrospect and Prospect -- 1. Migration in South Asia: Old and New Mobilities (S Irudaya Rajan) -- 2. Internal and Forced Migration and Economic Development in South Asia (Mehdi Chowdhury and Syed Naimul Wadood) -- 3. Non-traditional Migration in South Asia (AKM Ahsan Ullah, Mallik Akram Hossain and Ahmed Shafiqul Huque) -- 4. International Migration in Bangladesh: A Political Economic Overview (Hasan Mahmud) -- 5. Labour Migration from Nepal: Trends and Explanations (Jagannath Adhikari, Mahendra Kumar Rai, Chiranjivi Baral and Mahendra Subedi) -- 6. Navigating between Nation and Civilization: Regimes of Citizenship and Migration under Bharatiya Janata Party (Samir Kumar Das) -- 7. Understanding Temporary Labour Migration through the Lens of Caste: India Case Study (S IrudayaRajan, Kunal Keshri and Priya Deshingkar) -- 8. Attraction and Detraction: Migration Drivers in Bhutan (Mayur A Gosai and Leanne Sulewski) -- Part 2: Family, Health and Demographics -- 9. An Analysis of the Impact of International Remittances on Child Education: Evidence from Pakistan (Hisaya Oda) -- 10. Female Migration and Stay-Behind Children in Bangladesh (Sabnam Sarmin Luna) -- Part 3: Forced Migration -- 11. A Threat or an Opportunity? Internal Migration in the Context of Climate Extremes in Pakistan (Kashif Majeed Salik, Maryum Shabbir, Khansa Naeem and Junaid Zahid) -- 12. Local Expert Perceptions of Creeping Environmental Changes and Responses in Maldives (Robert Stojanov and Ilan Kelman) -- 13. From Muhājir to āwāra: Figures of Migration and Exile among Afghans (Khadija Abbasi and Alessandro Monsutti) -- 14. Health beyond Borders: Migration and Precarity in South Asia (Anuj Kapilashrami and Ekatha Ann John) -- 15. Migration, Development within the SAARC Framework: Towards a Migration Governance Model of the Future (S. Irudaya Rajan and Ashwin Kumar).