Indian Skilled Migration and Development

Introduction Gabriela Tejada, Uttam Bhattacharya, Binod Khadria.- Part 1: Conceptual framework.- Geographies of world knowledge. The role of scientists and scientific policies and practices Jean-Claude Bolay.- The dichotomy of the skilled and unskilled among NRIs and PIOs: Bane or boon for development in India? Binod Khadria.- Repercussions of international mobility on migrants' home countries: Analytical framework Metka Hercog.- Student migration at the tri-juncture of globalization - higher education, competition for talent and migration management Ana Mosneaga.- Investment-linked skilled mobility between India and the EU Rupa Chanda and Deeparghya Mukherjee.- Empirical evidence.- Methodology Umesh Bharte.-Institutional settings in selected European destination countries in comparison to institutional settings in the USA Metka Hercog and Christiane Kuptsch.- Diasporic paths to development: An Indian perspective Umesh Bharte and Rashmi Sharma.- Matching experiences and aspirations in the host countries with the Indian reality Gabriela Tejada, Zakaria Siddiqui and Uttam Bhattacharya.- Return Migration and Development: Evidence from India's Skilled Professionals Perveen Kumar, Uttam Bhattacharya, Jayanta Nayek.- Gender Migration, Return and Development: Emerging Trends and Issues with special reference to India Jayanti Kumari and Rashmi Sharma.- Experiences in the host countries and return plans Metka Hercog, Zakaria Siddiqui and Uttam Bhattacharya.- Scientific diasporas and backwards knowledge transfer Gabriela Tejada, Jean-Claude Bolay, Binod Khadria.- Reverse migration: Expectations and realities of career choices among skilled return migrants in India Radha Roy Biswas.-Conclusions.- India: a paradigmatic exemplar to be used with precaution Jean-Baptiste Meyer and Binod Khadria.- Mobility of Indian human capital in the brain drain - brain gain debate Gabriela Tejada, Binod Khadria, Uttam Bhattacharya and Christiane Kuptsch.

Gabriela Tejada is Senior Scientist at Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, where she leads the research line on scientific diasporas, migration and development. Her research agenda focuses on the links between skilled migration and home country development and on diaspora transnationalism. She has studied countries such as Colombia, South Africa, India, Moldova and Tunisia. Her research has been funded by grants from institutions such as the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Swiss Network for International Studies. At EPFL, she is involved in the promotion of scientific cooperation activities with emerging and developing countries. She obtained her primary degree in International Relations from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and she holds a PhD Cum Laude in Political Science from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona in Spain.

Uttam Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of Economics at the Institute for Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK), India. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Calcutta. He served as Guest Lecturer with the Department of Economics at Vidyasagar University in Midnapore, West Bengal and at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Prior to this, he was attached to the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta (CSSSC). His current work at IDSK is on Indian industrial development, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Indian research and development. He is also in the process of editing a book on the development of capital goods in India. His main areas of research include the machine tool industry in India and the scope for self-reliance, IPRs and India, the Indian patent system, Indo-Australian economic relations, migration, child labour and the education of children in India, micro-finance and poverty eradication, local governments