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Migration to Middle East will continue: Expert
Wednesday March 27, 2013 12:58:17 PM,
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Thiruvananthapuram: An expert on migration has rebuffed reports of an exodus of Keralites from the Middle East and said that migration from Kerala
to Saudi Arabia and the UAE would continue for the next two
decades.
"In the past one decade, there were many reports that Keralites
and Indians would have to return to India from the Middle East.
This is just a rumour," S. Irudayarajan, head of International
Migration at the Centre for Development Studies here, who has done
extensive studies on the subject for the past two decades, told
IANS.
He was responding to media reports that about four lakh Keralites
employed in Saudi Arabia would have to return after the Saudi
government decided to follow a strict policy of employing locals.
"Migration figures show that in the past four years, more
Keralites migrated to Saudi Arabia than to the UAE," Irudayarajan
said.
According to the annual report of the Ministry of Overseas Indian
Affairs, Saudi Arabia continues to be the desired destination
among low- and semi-skilled workers from India, attracting 289,297
people in 2011.
In 2011, 2.28 million Keralites were working abroad. The number
was 2.19 million in 2008, 1.84 million in 2003 and 1.36 million in
1998.
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