This handbook presents cutting-edge research on South Asian migrants written from a diverse theoretical and methodological perspective by leading scholars from around the world. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.

Ajaya K. Sahoo is a Professor and Head of the Centre for Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent edited books include the Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism (2022) and the Routledge Handbook of Asian Diaspora and Development (2021). He is also the editor of the Journal of South Asian Diaspora (Taylor & Francis/Routledge).

Introduction - South Asian Migrations Part-I: Contextualizing South Asian Migrations Chapter 1. Irregular Migration in South Asia; Chapter 2. South Asians in Britain: Migration, Settlement, and Conflict; Chapter 3. The Complexity of Large-scale Migrations from South Asia to the Gulf; Chapter 4. Migration of Health Workforce in the South Asian Region; Chapter 5. Distress-induced Migration in South Asia: Can Watersheds Help as Infrastructures of Desirable Immobility? Part-II: Migration, Language, and Identity Chapter 6. South Asian Migrant Literature in the UK; Chapter 7. Racialized Language Ideologies Challenging the Educational Opportunities of South Asian Students in Hong Kong; Chapter 8. Migration and Domination: Gauda Saraswat Brahmanas of South Western India; Chapter 9. Language and Power in South Asian Transnational Migration: Case Studies from Pakistan; Chapter 10. Literary Perspective on Sri Lankan Migration to the United Kingdom Part-III: Politics of Migration and Development Chapter 11. Protection and Mobility in the time of Pandemic; Chapter 12. Reverse Capital: South Asian Migrants in Irregular Migration Contexts; Chapter 13. Staying On and "Immobility Capital": Muslim Darzis (Tailors) in post-partition Calcutta, 1947-1967; Chapter 14. Citizenship Entangle: Politics of Migration and Identity in and outside Assam; Chapter 15. Motivational factors of Migration from Bangladesh to Italy Part-IV: Gender, Culture, and Migration Chapter 16. South Asian Diaspora, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Epistemological Omission of Caste; Chapter 17. 'Lost Conversations': The Negotiations and Violations of Emotion Cultures Embedded in Migrant Journeys; Chapter 18. Understanding Punjabi Mexican Family Life in America; Chapter 19. South Asian Transnationalism: Gender, Identities, and Virtual Spaces; Chapter 20. State, Refugees and Fuzzy Borders: Dialectics of Reciprocal Integration among Tibetan Refugees and Indian Hosts in Ladakh Part-V: Migration, Diaspora, and Transnationalism Chapter 21. Nepali Migration to Japan: From the 'Vulnerable Invisible' to the 'Precarious Visible'; Chapter 22. Changing Contours of Nepali Diaspora in India; Chapter 23. Acculturation and Adaptation of Indian Immigrants in Portugal; Chapter 24. A bidesh called Italy: Migration from Bangladesh to Italy and beyond; Chapter 25. Italian Bangladeshis in Europe: Social Networks, Transnational Ties and Intra-EU Mobility; Index