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Female Emigration from India Case Study of Nurses

Almost half of the four million Indian emigrants to the Gulf are from Kerala. Among them, 16 per cent are women, a growing number since they were only 9 per cent a few years ago. This article focuses on the specificities of this female emigration with an analysis of statistical data from a recent su...

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Autor Principal: MARIE PERCOT, S IRUDAYA RAJAN
Formato: Printed Book
Publicado: Economic and Political Weekly January 27, 2007 2007
Acceso en liña:http://10.26.1.76/ks/002024.pdf
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Summary:Almost half of the four million Indian emigrants to the Gulf are from Kerala. Among them, 16 per cent are women, a growing number since they were only 9 per cent a few years ago. This article focuses on the specificities of this female emigration with an analysis of statistical data from a recent survey. It presents the results of an anthropological study of the emigration of nurses from Kerala