INDIA

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INDIA
INDIA

• By,
• Laura Berkowitz, Lindsay Martinez, Eric Border,
  and Leo Lopez

BY, LAURA BERKOWITZ, LINDSAY MARTINEZ, ERIC
BORDER, AND LEO LOPEZ
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Top 5 Countries of Destination
1995 Outflows of Employed Nationals Saudi
Arabia 256,782 United Arab Emirates
79,674 Oman 22,338 Kuwait 16,439 Bahrain
11,235 2001 Contract Migrant Workers Saudi
Arabia 78,048 United Arab Emirates 53,673 Kuwai
t 39,751 Oman 30,985 Singapore 27,886
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Per Capita Income
Indias Per Capita Income in 2003 is estimated at
2,900
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2003 Per Capita Income of Top 5 Receiving
Countries
Oman 13,400
Saudi Arabia 11,800
Kuwait 18,100
United Arab Emirates 23,200
Singapore 23,700
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Year Workers Remittances (Millions US)
1990 2,352
1991 3,275
1992 2,891
1993 3,495
1994 5,782
1995 6,139
1996 8,453
1997 10,297
1998 9,453
1999 11,002
R E M I T T A N C E S
T O I N D I A

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Why Do Migrants Leave Home?

• Natural Disasters
• Political Purposes

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NATURAL DISASTERS

• The 2004 Tsunami
• The killer tidal wave destroyed over 2,260
  kilometers of coastline
• 1,100 dead 6,000 missing and presumed as dead
• Local business, resorts, and schools were
  demolished
• Over 2 billion needed for reconstruction
• Disease and poverty have exploded among the
  population
• Several left homeless

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KASHMIR

• TENSION IN THE STATE OF KASHMIR
• LONG-STANDING TENSIONS BETWEEN
• KASHMIR AND NEIGHBORING
• PAKISTAN
• SEPARTIST GROUPS GAIN POWER
• VOTERS THREATENED BY
• SEPARTIST GROUPS

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ANDREH PRADESH

• VIOLENCE
• VIOLENT CLASHES BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE
• GOVERNMENTS AND THE MAOIST REBEL
• PEOPLES WAR GROUP (PWG)
• AN ESTIMATED 6,000 DEATHS THUS FAR
• GOVERNMENT INITIATED PEACE TALKS AND AN
• UNEASY TRUCE WAS ESTABLISHED
• AFTER ATTACKS ON REBEL FORCES, REBELS
• WITHDRAWL FROM PEACE PROCESS

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ECONOMICS
UNEMPLOYMENT High unemployment Sixty per cent
of India's workforce is self-employed, but still
remain near poverty. Nearly 30 per cent are
casual workers (i.e. they work only when they
are able to get jobs and remain unpaid for the
rest of the days). Only about 10 per cent are
regular employees. EDUCATION Over 70 per cent
of the labor force is either illiterate or
educated below the primary level.

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Why Do They Go To The Top 5 Destinations

• Investment Migration from India to the Middle
  East is traced back to the period when the
  British East India Company began to invest there.
  
• Large government and private investments in the
  Middle East.
• In response to the demand of unskilled labor in
  the Gulf States.

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Remittances

• 1983 India passed a law that gave more rights to
  expatriates working in other countries.

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Immigration Unemployment

• Economy has had 6 growth rate since 1990
• Caused rate to drop by 10
• Rate now sits at 9.5
• Net Migration Rate -0.07
• Meaning that for every 1000 people 7 are leaving
  the country

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Skilled/Unskilled Workers

• Every year India graduates 1,000,000 engineers
• India now provides the brain power to the worlds
  high tech companies like IBM, Motorola and
  Microsoft.

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Gender Relations

• Most migrants into India are from Bangladesh
• Over 1 million women and children have been
  trafficked out of Bangladesh over the last 30
  years.
• Most are lured with the promise of a better life
  and are then forced into prostitution or become
  professional beggars.

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India and Bangladesh A work in progress

• Indians is mostly Hindu and Bangladesh is mostly
  Muslim, this has been the source of some tension
  between the two countries.
• They have been arguing over shared water
  resources from the Ganges River.
• Illegal Immigration has also been a sore spot
  with talks of India building a wall to on the
  Indian Bangladesh border.

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Migrants Themselves

• Indian migrants assimilate to the country they
  migrate to, but still practice and follow the
  customs and traditions of their home country.
• Most Indian migrants speak Hindu, so a new
  language most be learned to function in the
  society of the new country.

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Self Sacrifice

• Indian migrants in other countries spend little
  of the money they make so that they can send it
  back to their poor families in India.
• They choose to live in an almost poverty stricken
  conditions to give their families more money.

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Hate Comes in Many Forms

• Indian migrants face discrimination and hatred by
  many different people in many different ways.
• Indian migrants face prejudice

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Tensions Within Families

• There is a lot of tension and strain on the
  family relationships of Indian migrants in other
  countries and their family still living in India.
  
• Most Indian migrants go to another country for
  years at a time to make money to send back to
  their families.
• The absence of the migrants presence creates
  conflict for the migrant and the family still
  living in India.