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Overview article on the contours of internal migration in India (Mint, Jan 16, 2019)
Overview article on the contours of international emigration from India (Mint, Feb 28, 2019)
Overview article on the contours of immigration into India (Mint, July 28, 2019)
On Migration and Cities: "Urbanization, Demographic Transition and the Growth of Cities in India, 1870-2020" (2016 Working Paper)
My research papers on migration are available on this link.
COVID-19/Lockdown Related Migration Views:
Twitter Thread on Influenza 1918 Indian History, March 12, 2020.
Twitter Thread with Migration Maps, March 29, 2020.
Twitter Thread on Gujarat Migration, May 6, 2020.
Twitter Thread on India's Reverse Exodus, May 29, 2020.
Twitter Thread on Migration and Caste, Aug 21, 2020.
"In times of lockdown, support migrant workers", Hindustan Times, March 26, 2020.
Interview to the Indian Express, March 30, 2020.
Podcast of Interview to The Hindu, April 2, 2020.
Interview to the Quint, April 4, 2020.
"State of Migration Crisis in Gujarat," Ahmedabad Mirror, April 5, 2020.
Podcast on the Sandip Roy Show, Indian Express, April 5, 2020.
On the Migration Situation in Maharashtra, Sakaal (Marathi), April 9, 2020.
Footprints: Plight of Migrant Workers, Jaipur Literary Festival Brave New World, April 12, 2020.
Interview to Times of India, April 13, 2020.
Interview to Civil Society Magazine, April 23, 2020.
Interview to Dainik Bhaskar (Hindi), May 28, 2020.
Featured views in BBC, Washington Post, The Economist, Spiegel, Economic Times, Civil Society, Les Echos, Telegraph
Carnegie India's podcast on India's migrant crisis, Sep 10, 2020
"The race to the bottom", [On Haryana's nativist law] Indian Express, March 9, 2021.
The Indian Express panel discussion on migration, March 30, 2021.
RESOURCES
India Migration Bibliography (Tumbe, IIMB, 2012)
The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India. The bibliography is inter-disciplinary and provides sections with selected publications by themes, regions, cities, overseas destinations and sample surveys. It will be of considerable interest to academics and non-academics working on migration related issues.
India Moving: A History of Migration (Tumbe, Penguin, 2018)
From adventure to indenture, martyrs to merchants, Partition to plantation, from Kashmir to Kerala, Japan to Jamaica and beyond, the many facets of the great migrations of India and the world are mapped in India Moving, the first book of its kind. To understand how millions of people have moved-from, to and within India-the book embarks on a journey laced with evidence, argument and wit, providing insights into topics like the slave trade and migration of workers, travelling business communities such as the Marwaris, Gujaratis and Chettiars, refugee crises and the roots of contemporary mass migration from Bihar and Kerala, covering terrain that often includes diverse items such as mangoes, dosas and pressure cookers. India Moving shows the scale and variety of Indian migration and argues that greater mobility is a prerequisite for maintaining the country's pluralistic traditions.
A policy document on internal migration brought out by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
India on the Move (2017)
A chapter in the Economic Survey of India, 2016-17, Ministry of Finance, with new estimates of migration using alternative methods
Some journals that regularly publish stuff on Indian migration...
Indian Journal of Labour Economics
Some institutes/organizations working on Indian migration...
Centre for Development Studies (CDS, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala)
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS, Mumbai)
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR, Mumbai)
Strengthen and Harmonize Research and Action on Migration in the Indian Context (SHRAMIC)
Some authors who have contributed extensively to understanding Indian Migration, are well-cited, and whose work I follow closely...
Some general references (listed in India Moving, pp. 231-232) to get you started working on Indian Migration, with an appreciation of history...
Globalising Migration History: The Eurasian Experience (16th-21st Centuries), ed. Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen (Leiden: Brill, 2014).
Migrations in Medieval and Early Colonial India, ed. Vijaya Ramaswamy (Delhi: Routledge, 2016).
Slavery and South Asian History, ed. Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. Eaton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006).
Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950, ed. Claude Markovits, Jacques Pouchepadass and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003).
Tirthankar Roy, India and the World Economy: From Antiquity to the Present (Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Sunil Amrith, Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
The Encylopedia of the Indian Diaspora, ed. Brij V. Lal (Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, 2006).
Devesh Kapur, Diaspora, Development and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010).
India Migration Report, ed. S. Irudaya Rajan, Annual Series 2010–17 (Delhi: Routledge).
Circular Migration and Multilocational Livelihood Strategies in Rural India, ed. Priya Deshingkar and John Farrington (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Refugees and the State: Practices of Asylum and Care in India, 1947–2000, ed. Ranabir Samaddar (Delhi: Sage, 2003).
Special Issues on Indian Migration: International Review of Social History, Supplement 14, On Labour History (2006); South Asian Studies Issue 1, On Indenture (2017); Indian Journal of Labour Economics (2011); Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, On Change and Continuity (2019).
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