| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 233 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Dreaming Mobility and Buying Vulnerability; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures and Box; List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Introduction: Emigration Governance and Labour Recruitment; 2. The Making of the Institution: Continuities and Ruptures; 3. The Process of Emigration: Mounting Costs and Paltry Returns; 4. Vulnerability, Corruption and Institutional Failure; 5. Between Unfettered and Controlled Informalities:Testimonies of an Enervated Institution; 6. Summary and Recommendations; Appendix 1: Emigration Act, 1922 |
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Appendix 2: Emigration Act, 1983Bibliography; About the Authors; Index |
| Summary |
In the alarming contemporary context of widespread corruption and fraudulence in the overseas labour recruitment system in India, this book attempts to understand the institution of emigration governance and recruitment practices in the country with a focus on the unskilled and semi-skilled sectors. It brings together the results of research in the major emigration hubs of India with the aid of quantitative and qualitative tools, drawing from all the major stakeholders -intending emigrants, recruiting agents, return emigrants, emigrant households, Protector of Emigrants, foreign employers, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-222) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration.
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Employees -- Recruiting -- India
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Emigration and Immigration
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Emigration and immigration
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Employees -- Recruiting
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Emigration and immigration
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| Subject |
India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vargīs, Vi. Je
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Jayakumar, M. S
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| ISBN |
9781317810049 |
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131781004X |
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9781317810056 |
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1317810058 |
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