Date:19/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/19/stories/2008111954570400.htm

New Delhi

JNU pact with Union Ministry on migration research

Staff Reporter

Professor Binod Khadria will head the project
Project envisages international collaboration

NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs has signed an agreement with Jawaharlal Nehru University here to work on a project for “International migration and diaspora research” at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies at JNU’s School of Social Sciences.

Economics Professor Binod Khadria, a reputed scholar in the field of international migration, will head the research project.

“Focusing primarily on the complex links between social, economic, political, cultural and educational aspects of globalisation and migration, the project envisages achieving its goals by conducting collaborative research through workshops, conferences, training modules, publications, hosting scholars and other research activities,” said the JNU in a release here.

“In recent decades, India has witnessed tremendous changes in international migratory flows, in scale as well as in diversity, outward as well as inward. The increasing dimension and complexity of the paradigm of globalisation and migration and the significant position that India holds in it, makes the project an important beginning,” it added.

Apart from interfacing with the Union Ministry, the project also envisages international collaboration with globally renowned organisations in the field of international migration.