When war is no deterrent to a desperate job-seeker

Unemployment at home pushes thousands of Indians to look overseas for work – even war zones. What’s missing is a coherent policy to protect them.

Migration is most easily explained in the following terms: people move from one country to another if the expected benefits exceed the costs. That is, if there are jobs and better wages.

But how do we explain the movement of labour from certain Indian states to countries at war,  such as Russia and Israel?