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100th Birth Anniversary Celebration of Dr K C Zachariah

 Special Issue: S Irudaya Rajan & AKM Ahsan Ullah (2023) From knowledge to action: South Asian diaspora engagement in times of crisis, South Asian Diaspora, 15:2, 123-136

 

 

IIMAD is pleased to announce the launch of the website for Migration and Development Journal(MAD) “Migration and Development” is available at https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mad At launch, the journal begins a free access period which ends on (06-12-2023).

Kerala Migration Survey 2023 takes place through Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation under the direction of Dr. S. Irudaya Rajan, Visiting Fellow, GIFT and Chair, IIMAD which is funded by the Government of Kerala.

The International Institute of Migration and Development welcomes
all interested Undergraduates, Postgraduates and aspiring
researchers to apply for the Internship programme at IIMAD

 

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Jyoti Sarkar- NMIMS, Mumbai

Senior Research Fellow

sarkar.j.p@gmail.com

Jyoti Parimal Sarkar is a trained economist with a PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her doctoral work completed at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), JNU focused on the linkage between migration (both internal and international) and its diversified development in geographically and demographically diversified regions of West Bengal.  Her M.Phil. dissertation from Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum attempted to examine the nature and the pattern of migration, the magnitude and dimension of migration in the light of the various theories around international migration like social network, economic opportunity, cumulative causation, etc. The role of the Government in the effort of their settlement, the political conditions and the kin-friendship linkage factors, which act as pull-factors are also examined. Some case studies of the cross-border Bangladeshi migrants were carried out. It gives in details, the main destination of the migrants, the activities they have undertaken in different places of their lives and the process of entry into job market. Besides, an attempt has been made to find out why and how they have migrated, i.e., the en route process of migration. Earlier, she has worked on a project “Governance of Labour Migration in India” undertaken by the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum and Ministry of Overseas Affairs in 2007. Currently, she works as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Anil Surendra Modi School of Commerce (ASMSOC), SKVM’s NMIMS, Mumbai Campus. She has published widely in the area of migration, regional development, employment and banking.