The Migration-Development Regime
How Class Shapes Indian Emigration
Rina Agarwala
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Modern South Asia
- Offers a novel framework with which to analyze international migration, namely the "Migration Development Regime" or MDR
- Provides a sociological analysis that compares sending states' use of both poor and elite emigrants
- Compiles and draws on extremely unique unpublished data, including over 200 interviews, the first data base of over 600 Indian-American transnational organizations, and archives of Indian government documents from 1920-present
