India Migration Report 2020 examines how surveys operate to collect, analyse and bring to life socio-economic issues in social science research, with a focus on the strategies and the importance of information collected by Kerala Migration Surveys since 1998.

S. Irudaya Rajan is Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. With more than three decades of research experience in Kerala, he has coordinated eight major migration surveys (1998, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2018) in Kerala (with Professor K.C. Zachariah), led the migration surveys in Goa (2008), Punjab (2011) and Tamil Nadu (2015), and provided technical support to the Gujarat Migration Survey (2010). He has published extensively in national and international journals on demographic, social, economic, political and psychological implications of international migration. Professor Rajan is currently engaged in several projects on international migration with the New York University, UAE Exchange Centre, India Centre for Migration of the Ministry of External Affairs and World Bank. He worked closely with the erstwhile Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, government of India; Department of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs (NORKA), government of Kerala and Kerala State Planning Board. He is currently co-chairing the working group on NORKA for the thirteenth five-year plan (2017-2022) of Kerala State Planning Board, government of Kerala, and is initiating the Kerala Migration Survey 2021, funded by the Department of NORKA, government of Kerala. He is Editor of the two Routledge series, India Migration Report (annual) since 2010 and South Asia Migration Report (biennial), and is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Migration and Development. Currently, he is the Chair of the KNOMAD (The Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, World Bank) working group on internal migration and urbanization. He is one of the expert committee members to advise the government of Kerala on COVID-19.

1. Large Scale Migration Surveys: Replication of Kerala Model of Migration Surveys to India Migration Survey 2024 2. Keeping up with Kerala's Joneses 3. Remittances, Health Expenditure and Demand for Health Care Services 4. Remittances and asset accumulation among the left behind households 5. Impact of Male Migrants, and their return, on Women Left-Behind 6. Socio-Economic Dynamics of Gulf Migration: A Panel Data Analysis 7. Why do Migrants Transfer Money? Motivations of Remittance from Emigrants 8. Reintegration and future plans of return migrants 9. Emigration and its Effect on the Labour Force Participation of Women in the Left-behind Household 10. Transnational Migration and Gender Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysis 11. Labour Migration: Decision to Migrate and Choice of Destination 12. Keralan in Circulation: Field Observations from Kerala and Dubai 13. The Alcohol Paradox: Revisiting the Kerala Model of Development 14. Financial cost of international migration from South India: What does data spanning three decades tell us? 15. Exploitative or ethical? Understanding the labour recruitment practices in the 21st century from Kerala 16. Remittances and Overseas Migrants Economic Shocks: Evidence from Kerala's Recipient Households after 2008 global crisis 17. Cultural Production of Narratives as Counter-Archives In Kerala Gulf Migration Studies 18. Migration and Asset Accumulation in South India: Comparing Gains to Internal and International Migration from Kerala 19. Tracing the changing Economic status of Kerala households: The KMS Experience 20. The Janus-faced dilemma of Migration as Adaptation: The impact of rapid-onset floods on labour migration in Kerala, 2018 21. Climate Change, Migration and Development: The Aftermath of the 2018 Floods in Kerala 22. Impact of Migration on Financial Inclusion and local financial system 23. International Migration and Global Diplomacy 24. Emigration Governance in India 25. Empowerment of Female Return Migrant Initiatives in Indonesia: Lessons for India