Overview
The information collected from various friends, relatives and colleague circles on reasons for the migration of youngsters from India is being collated here. In addition, the notes collected from the # ABROAD VIBES interaction with students aspiring for migration, organised by Shastravedhi on Jul 28, 2024, at Thiruvavnathapuam are also included.
Financial Aspirations
- Urge to make more money, better economic options
- Better salary, ease of grabbing more income, profit
- Problems in Savings in India
- Taxation (direct and indirect) and charges
- The value of money/currency makes exchange rates attractive
- Availability of better collaborative and funding options
Educational and Research Aspirations
- More viable options for higher studies
- Tougher, undue and unhealthy competition due to lack of availability (over merit/ability)
- More exam-oriented selection processes
- Reservation systems are demoralizing for many
- Many education systems abroad are result oriented lenient and flexible to student context
- No age limit in many countries for education, looking for future options
- Research-oriented education, more opportunities to acquire comfortable skills
- Infrastructure availability, better research facilities and systems
- Cultural diversities in the universities are valuable
- Quality of education is competitive, and professionalism
- Industry exposure and practical aspects of education
- Exposure to a diversity of opportunities
- Opportunity to research and post-doctoral opportunities
- Critical thinking abilities/Adoption
- Practical-oriented, choose and pick, result-oriented approaches in general
- Flexible exam schedule
- Education options and screening getting costlier
- Part-time work options
Socio-Economic Aspirations
- Cool Lifestyle
- Be in better infrastructure
- Be in a developed society/environment
- Better living standards, quality of life, jobs
- Looking for comfort zone, dignity
- Growing individualism, the ability to accommodate that
- Escape from cast, religion, language, like social buckets/tags/prejudice
- Many countries assume to have a welcome attitude and assure dignity of life
- Free life – structure, diversity, jobs, flexible switches – no need to stick to patterns
- The mindset of people, companies and societies
- Do not want to take up unreasonable burden/load
- Emerging study abroad/work abroad consultants and their marketing abilities. The evolution of them as a business
- Want to give back to the world (not seeing options/values here)
- Reduction of values and ethics in society
- Continuation of colonial hierarchy (social and work)
- Ability and culture to take bottom-line responsibility
- Lack of motivation
- no clarity on vision and mission
- not feeling valuable, not seeing a role to fit in
- erosion of collective values
- No vital role models, reluctant to follow blindly
- Peer pressure
- Relatives and friends settled abroad
- Social status of migrated people
- Personal freedom - Not convinced with laid out social fabric
- Self-expression is more appreciated
- Dilution of depth/need of family connections/interdependencies
- Not comfortable with constraints imposed by religions, cast, language etc.
- Criticized and judged for everything, Intolerance, judgmental nature of society
- Not feeling valued, the value of life is defined by others
- The dignity of life is questioned, bound to abide by social rules
- Equality and open society
- Quality personal life, options to hold independent views/behaviours
- Wishes to get involved in Self-driven cultures
- Quest for better opportunities
- Influence of already migrated people
- Technology / Knowledge exposure, better adoption of technology
- Environment to experiment and fail with dignity
- Better career paths
- Do not want to give up, when things are not workable here
- Modern and progressive social structures are promising
- Exposure to new ways of life, people and culture
- Well-oriented and up-to-date systems
- Good guidelines/governance
- Output/focused work
- Social Security
- Job Security, protection, switch ability, support
- Better retirement options
- Free health care, education, child care
- Better commitment to work-life balance
- Women friendly societies
- Kids friendly education
- Not inclusive, transparency
- Looking for more democratic social systems, not feeling involved
- Feeling sidelined or rejected, as ownership and authority are not inclusive
- Social structure is not transparent, everywhere roadblocks are defined
- Looking for less corrupt environments
- Less bureaucracy
Assumptions based on patterns
- Reduction in love and affection
- Cities in India are getting crowded
- Lack of love for native languages and commitment to nationality
- Impact of globalization
- How we portray India, trashing of India on social media
- Lack of proper discussions on pros and cons
- Looking for a reset of the situation / thinks that environment change could help
- Do not want to take responsibility, runs away from duties, gets rid of problems
- It is an age-old natural phenomenon, human beings used to migrate in search of resources and betterment
- Elders may resist, considering the future of the country and society
- Lack of atmosphere for search/optimism
- Government jobs are less attractive, they are mostly repetitive, administrative jobs
- Lack of critical thinking and critical reading
- College curriculums are not well structured, with enough practical exposure
Challenges to be carefully examined
- Over - Individualism can lead to depression, nobody cares
- The height of isolation is beyond imagination for many
- Homesickness and hangovers are not easy to manage for many
- Emptiness of life may occur when looking back after a while
- Second-class treatment, protectionism and apartheid are being emerged at many parts of the world
- Labour restrictions/limits based on shortage are being implemented in countries
- Changes in the plan/priorities of countries may put migrants at a fix
- Extreme weather may not be manageable for all
- There are success stories, or are we hearing only success stories?
- More details of pitfalls also need to be explored before taking a call
- A thorough study and analysis of economic and social feasibility and fitment has to be done before taking a call
