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

"Kapur makes a powerful case that international flows of people are shaping the world in ways with which we have yet to come to grips. Kapur artfully combines case studies, statistical analysis, and new surveys, from both India and the United States, to paint a fascinating picture of India'...

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Main Author: Kapur, Devesh, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
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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.