The Migration-Development Regime

Download or read book The Migration-Development Regime written by Rina Agarwala and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration-development regimes (MDRs) -- The rise and fall of the coolie MDR (1834-1947) : racialized class exploitation -- The rise and fall of the nationalist MDR (1947-1977) : erasing the Indian emigrant -- The CEO MDR (1977-present) : liberalizing emigration and tapping emigrants' financial contributions -- The CEO MDR : tapping elite emigrants' ideological contributions and forging an elite class pact of "global Indians" -- Experiencing the CEO MDR from below : poor emigrants -- Experiencing the CEO MDR from below : elite emigrants -- Vulnerabilities in the CEO MDR and a future trajectory.