Full Description
India Migration Report 2024: Indians in Canada is one of the first volumes to comprehensively examine and analyse the different facets of Indian migration to Canada.
This volume:
• Examines the comprehensive history of Indian migration to Canada, including the story of social, cultural, economic, and political integration, analysis of socio-economic characteristics, and evolving political scenarios surrounding student migration and diasporas.
• Presents an overview of migration and post-migration experiences of Indian immigrant and Indo-Canadian women and the rising trend of high-skilled Indian female migration to Canada.
• Discusses the influence of Canadian immigration policy and its effects on the changing immigration patterns of Indians to Canada.
• Examines the challenges faced by Indian immigrants and Indo-Canadians due to deeply entrenched Eurocentric and Ethnocentric biases and the impact of COVID-19 on the community.
• Explores the effect of adult children's migration on the health and suffering from disability of elderly left behind in the migration process.
The book also discusses leveraging migration for international development. The book will be of interest to scholars, students, researchers, or anyone interested in migration and diasporic studies, development studies, the politics of migration, immigration policy, social anthropology, economics, and sociology.
Contents
1. A century of Indian migration to Canada: A choreography of challenges and changes 2. Growing Together: The Evolution of Indian Immigrants in Canada 3. The Canada-India Relationship: A historical understanding of political discontent and diaspora 4. Indian Women in Canada 5. "We know we have to work like a 'donkey' in Canada": Employment Expectations and Experiences of Young Punjabis migrating to Canada 6. Indo-Canadians in Canadian Politics 7. The Growing Indian Diaspora in Ontario's North 8. Economic Assimilation of Indians in Canada 9. Navigating Uncharted Trajectories: Skilled Indian Women Migrating to Canada 10. COVID-19 Challenges, Health and Wellness of the little India Community in Canada 11. Diaspora Dilemmas and Deadlocks: The Indian Immigration Flux and Struggled Survival in Canada 12. Model Minorities and Marriage Migration: Experiences of Indian migrant women in Canada 13. A short history of izzat among the Punjabi diaspora 14. Migration and Integration: Changing Realities and Evolving Perceptions 15. Punjabi Migration to northwestern British Columbia: Labour and the First Nations 16. Canadian Punjabi Diaspora 17. How Memory and Generation Shape South Asian Migration 18. Exploring the Canadian Market for Indian Health Workers 19. The Immigrant Policies of Canada and Racism: An Indian Experience 20. Migration of Adult Children and Left Behind Parent's Health and Disability: Evidence from Tamil Nadu Migration Survey 2015 21. A New Path Forward: Leveraging Migration for Development
