Development Outlook of Education and Migration : An Indian Perspective

This book describes the movement of un-skilled and skilled workers both within and from India and its fallout on education and development. It furthers the evidence on the contribution of education and international migration in development with specific reference to India as a major source country of migrant population. The book also distinguishes the underlying linkages and distinction between international and internal migration on the one hand and the education and development experience on the other. It brings forth the causes and development experiences of both migrations to a common platform to gauge on their similarities and differences in the lens of education and development. As such, this book contributes to the scant literature on Indian experience of internal and international migration and sheds light on future migration policy and course correction necessary for places and countries of migrant origin.

Dr Basant Potnuru has a PhD in Economics of Education from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has 17 years of experience in teaching and research. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Rohtak and Invertis University (Bareilly). Prior to joining FORE School of Management, he has served as a Research Officer and Head of Projects Division at the India Centre for Migration (ICM), a think-tank of the Overseas Indian Affairs Division (formerly, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs) of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi. While at ICM, as a Head of the India-EU Project team, he played a leading role in drafting Common Agenda on Migration and Mobility (CAMM) for the Ministry, which the Government of India signed with the European Union in 2016. He has published many research papers and policy briefs in national and international peer-reviewed journals, books and newspapers. His research interests are international migration, education, health and macroeconomic management.

Dr. Narender Thakur teaches at the Department of Economics, Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, University of Delhi, India, as an Associate Professor and completed his Post-doctoral fellowship from Indian Council for Social Science Research in Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP) and Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies (ZHCES), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He did his Master of Science in Econometrics from University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. His teaching and research areas of specializations are Political Economy, Macroeconomics, Economics of Education and Migration, and Econometrics.

Dr. Perveen Kumar is serving as a professor at Shri Jai Narain Misra PG College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. He obtained his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been associated with the International Migration and Diaspora Studies (IMDS) Project instituted at Jawaharlal Nehru University which inter alia brought out the India Migration Report 2009: Past, Present and the Future Outlook and India Migration Report 2010-11: The Americas. He has also been involved in several research projects carried out by the IMDS Project. He has contributed articles and research papers in various journals and chapters in edited volumes and conference proceedings. His research interests include economics of education, migration and education policy.