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Dreaming mobility and buying vulnerability : overseas recruitment practices in India / S. Irudaya Rajan, V.J. Varghese, M.S. Jayakumar.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : Routledge, c2011.Description: xvii, 233 p. : ill. ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415687652 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 331.620954 IRU 007625
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Contents:
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 -- appendix 2. Emigration act, 1983.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-222) and index.

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 --
appendix 2. Emigration act, 1983.

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