@book{762446,
	author = {Prakash, B. A.},
	title = {Five Decades of Kerala Migration to the gulf Countries 1974-2024 : Migration, Return Migration and Economic Impacts/},
	publisher = {Modern Book Center,},
	year = {2024.},
	address = {Trivandrum:},
	edition = {1 ed.},
	note = {During the last five decades the factor which had the greatest impact on the Kerala economy, especially on labour market, consumption, savings, investment, poverty, income distribution, and economic growth has been the Gulf migration and migrant remittances.”The book presents the trends, patterns and major issues in Kerala’s migration to the Gulf for five decades between 1974 and 2024. It encompasses the trends in Kerala migration to the Gulf since 1974, the impact of foreign remittances on the migrant households, the economic impact of Gulf migration on Kerala’s economy, the employment, wage and working conditions of Indian emigrant workers in UAE and Kuwait, the COVID-19 pandemic and exodus of Kerala emigrant workers from GCC Countries and the recent trends in world and Indian international migration. The book contains published and unpublished studies conducted by the author between 1974 and 2024 including the first study on Gulf remittances in Kerala (1978).}
}