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Notes On Irudaya Rajan's Talk
Notes On Irudaya Rajan's Talk
According to UN, highest no. of emigrants. 18 million Indians abroad (those with Indian
passports.
In a survey with 15,000 households in Kerala, 2.5 million in Gulf from Kerala alone.
T.N. 1.2-15 million in Gulf.
Etihad and Emirates operates 2 flights every day to TVM and other airports in Kerala.
In the pandemic, most affected migrants were in Gulf countries.
Gulf countries don’t grant citizenship even after living there for many years.
Burial of migrants were not done in the Gulf before, but it was made to happen during the
pandemic.
1. Stigma on migrants – treated as carrier of covid-19, locals put posters outside people’s house
demarcating them as returned from abroad.
2. During a normal return – they are seen as heros, in Vande Bharat Mission, they were
considered as zeros.
3. First time in the history of migration, they have come with empty hands.
> III – distress return – caused by covid-19. These people made enough money to go, but came
back without any money. Became poorer by migrating.
Stranded migrants were given INR 5,000/- those who were stranded in India and couldn't
go back.
20 lakh crore as economic revival package only addressed internal migration, but nothing
about international migrants.
Emigration Bill is being re-drafted now.
Post-covid large scale migration.
Need to re-train the people so that they can migrate.
Migration will continue and govt must support them.
Future of migration
Indians may migrate but route may change. 90% now in Gulf, now people will migrate to
other countries also.
Remittances have not come down. 20 years ago, 34% of Kerala had remittances.
Kerala is an aging state – 1 out of 6 people is an old person.
Keralites addicted to migration
Now, demographically backward states also send their people out, like Bihar and UP.