Nurse Emigration from Kerala: ‘Brain Circulation’ or ‘Trap’?

India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration

Volumn , Issue , 2022, Pages 206-223

  Walton Roberts, Margaret ^a   Rajan, S Irudaya ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (India)

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