6/22/2023 0 Comments Suresh naidu textlab![]() Recruiting International Migrant Labor: Theory and Evidence (UAE) - Yaw Nyarko (PI), New York University Abu Dhabi, Suresh Naidu (co-PI) and Shin-Yi Wang (co-PI), Columbia University.This mixed method data collection technology can be used to study various highly mobile populations navigating the multiplex, opaque social landscape of labor migration over time. The project combines in-depth interviews with aspiring migrants and their household members with the deployment of a mobile phone application to collect data at micro spatiotemporal intervals during their recruitment journey. The goal of this pilot project, situated in Pakistan, is to make a methodological contribution to the study of labor migration processes that is scalable and transferable across sending countries. However, it is unclear how much they understand about these expectations and commitments because of possible misinformation from sub-agents. Along these pathways, aspiring migrants acquire and develop expectations, plans, and a range of obligations from different sub-agents. These pathways comprise complex, informal networks of sub-agents working at the local and regional levels on behalf of larger, national-level recruitment agencies. ![]() This methodologically innovative project focuses on the pathways that aspiring migrants take in order to engage with sending country recruitment agencies. Disaggregating Recruitment: Uncovering the Expectations, Obligations and Hidden Pathways of Labor Migration (Pakistan) - Daniel Karell, New York University Abu Dhabiĭisaggregating Recruitment: Uncovering the Expectations, Obligations and Hidden Pathways of Labor Migration (Pakistan) - Daniel Karell, New York University Abu Dhabi.While the project focuses on the outcomes for the women “left behind,” we believe that the research will provide valuable information about the motivation and decision making processes of Keralite migrants to the Gulf, in keeping with the sociological insight that families and kinship networks are involved in most migration events. What are the possible effects of intergenerational migration experiences?.How do these effects vary between religious and social groups?.What is the impact of global migration from Kerala on transnational families, and, particularly, the gendered identities of these women? Specifically, how do they shape the lived experience of women in Kerala who do not migrate themselves but are still significantly impacted by the process?.The project seeks to answer following questions: Families of labor migrants, especially migrants’ spouses who remain in the sending country, are generally conceptualized as “left behind” - often in situations that might not be conducive to their well-being, without the protection their absent husbands may afford them. ![]() This ethnographic project is designed to help generate hypotheses about the way in which migration to the Gulf affects gender hierarchies in Malappuram, Kerala. Migration and Kerala’s Gender Paradox (Kerala, India) - Hannah Brückner (PI) and Swethaa Ballakrishnen (co-PI), New York University Abu Dhabi
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