Indians constitute the largest number of international migrants in the world. This seminar with Devesh Kapur, Ph.D., Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and author of Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India, will examine the post-1965 migration of Indian migrants to the United States, one of the most selective migrations in recent history. How did immigrants from a low-income country emerge as one of the most educated and highest income immigrant groups in the United States? How did immigrants from a country half-way around the world emerge as the second largest source of immigrants to the US? How has this large movement of people impacted the receiving country – the United States – as well as the sending country – India? How are recent shifts in US politics and policies likely to shape this migrating stream?
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