Gender and Migration in the Arabian Gulf
暫譯: 阿拉伯海灣的性別與移民

Dr. S. Irudaya Rajan is the chair of the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD), India, and a leading scholar in migration studies with over three decades of research experience. Formerly a professor at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), India, he has served as the principal investigator for multiple large-scale migration and aging surveys across India. Since 1998, he has directed the Kerala Migration Survey (KMS), a pioneering study developed in collaboration with K. C. Zachariah (Founder President, IIMAD). The KMS, now in its ninth iteration (2023), has provided critical empirical insights into migration patterns, labor mobility, and remittance economies in the Indian context. The methodological framework developed by Zachariah and Rajan for large-scale migration surveys has been systematically replicated across several Indian states, including Goa, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Odisha, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu, shaping state-level and national migration governance discourses.

Dr. Divya Balan is a faculty member and Area Chair of International Studies at FLAME University, Pune, India. With a doctorate in European Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, she brings over a decade of teaching, research, and field experience to her work on international migration, the Indian diaspora, and refugee studies, fields that stand at the very heart of contemporary global debates. Awarded the prestigious Europe Area Studies Programme Grant during her doctoral studies, Divya also served as an International Research Fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Currently, she serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Migration and Development (IIMAD) in Kerala. In her role as a migration policy consultant for civil society and intergovernmental organisations, she continues to bridge theory and practice, bringing people-centred perspectives into governance.

S. Irudaya Rajan 博士是印度國際移民與發展研究所（IIMAD）的主席，也是移民研究領域的領先學者，擁有超過三十年的研究經驗。他曾擔任印度發展研究中心（CDS）的教授，並擔任多項大規模移民與老齡化調查的首席研究員。自1998年以來，他一直負責喀拉拉邦移民調查（KMS），這是一項與 K. C. Zachariah（IIMAD 創始會長）合作開發的開創性研究。KMS 現在已進入第九次調查（2023年），為印度的移民模式、勞動力流動性和匯款經濟提供了重要的實證見解。Zachariah 和 Rajan 為大規模移民調查所開發的方法論框架已在包括果阿邦、古吉拉特邦、恰爾肯德邦、奧里薩邦、旁遮普邦和泰米爾納德邦等多個印度州系統性地複製，塑造了州級和國家層面的移民治理話語。

Divya Balan 博士是印度浦那的 FLAME 大學國際研究系的教職員及區域主任。她擁有新德里賈瓦哈拉爾·尼赫魯大學的歐洲研究博士學位，並在國際移民、印度僑民和難民研究等領域擁有超過十年的教學、研究和實地經驗，這些領域正是當代全球辯論的核心。她在博士學習期間獲得了著名的歐洲區域研究計劃獎學金，並曾擔任瑞士巴塞爾大學歐洲全球研究所的國際研究學者。目前，她在喀拉拉邦的國際移民與發展研究所（IIMAD）擔任高級研究員。在擔任民間社會和政府間組織的移民政策顧問期間，她持續將理論與實踐相結合，將以人為本的觀點融入治理中。