Diaspora, development, and democracy : the domestic impact of international migration from India /

Diaspora, development, and democracy : the domestic impact of international migration from India / Devesh Kapur.

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The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries. Devesh Kapur finds that migratio...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Kapur, Devesh, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
East Indians > Foreign countries.
East Indian diaspora.
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
India > Emigration and immigration.
India > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
India > Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
India.
Table of Contents:
  • The missing leg of the globalization triad : international migration
  • Analytical framework and research methodology
  • Selection characteristics of emigration from India
  • Economic effects
  • Social remittances : migration and the flow of ideas
  • International migration and the paradox of India's democracy
  • The Indian diaspora and Indian foreign policy : soft power or soft underbelly?
  • Civil or uncivil transnational society? The janus face of long-distance nationalism
  • Spatially unbound nations.

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