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Title: Tapping the Indian Diaspora for Indian Development
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: Owing to their colonial history and their historic integration with global markets, Indians have been migrating across the world for centuries. Today twenty million Indians live outside India (GOI 2000). They span the spectrum of class, profession, and history—ranging from construction workers in the Middle East and taxi drivers in New Jersey to bank managers in Latin America and information technology (IT) entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Given the magnitude and diversity of the Indian diaspora, it is surprising how litt le we know about their activities and their impact on the country of origin. This chapter, based on the Comparative Immigrant Organizations Project (CIOP), examines how Indian immigrants in the United States have infl uenced development in India. Development is defi ned broadly to include policies and practices that aim to improve well-being in the socioeconomic and political realms. Surveys have shown that nearly 95 percent of overseas Indians send money to their families or close friends to support education, health, or other personal concerns in the homeland (Sampradaan . . .
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Authors: Agarwala, Rina
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Volume Title: The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four ...
Publisher: Berghahn Books
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
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