Migration, Gender and Care Economy

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S. Irudaya Rajan is Professor at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) Thiruvananthapuram Kerala India. He has coordinated seven large-scale migration surveys in Kerala since 1998 (with Professor K. C. Zachariah) as well as the Goa Migration Survey 2008 and the Tamil Nadu Migration Survey 2015. He was also instrumental in conducting the Punjab Migration Survey 2009 and Gujarat Migration Survey 2011. He has published extensively in national and international journals on social economic demographic and political implications on international migration and he also acted as Chair of the Research Unit on International Migration (RUIM) during 200616. He is the editor of the annual series India Migration Report and editor-in-chief of Migration and Development. N. Neetha is Senior Fellow (Professor) and Deputy Director at the Centre for Womens Development Studies (CWDS) New Delhi India. Prior to this she was Associate Fellow and Coordinator at the Centre for Gender and Labour V.V. Giri National Labour Institute Noida India. Her broad research interests include labour employment and migration issues of women. Her current research work focuses on the changing dimensions of womens employment gender statistics and the social political and economic dimensions of care work (paid as well as unpaid). She has been engaged in a large-scale study on female migration and is one of the lead authors of the 'Pluralization of Family' chapter in the International Panel on Social Progress Report. She has published in several journals and books.