Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India

by Devesh Kapur

Book Overview

What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries.

Devesh Kapur finds that migration has influenced India far beyond a simplistic "brain drain"--migration's impact...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691125384
• ISBN13: 9780691125381
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"