While most Indian migrants support the manufacturing and transport industries, a sizable minority of migrants are involved in professional services and entrepreneurship.

By 1999, the population of Indian migrants in the UAE, which stood at 170,000 in 1975, was at 750,000.

A vast majority of Indian migrants are on employment based visas, while others are on business or trade visas.

The government of Nepal or its agents encouraged many Indian migrants to move into the Terai for settlement.

Some of these Indian migrants later became large landowners.

The earliest Indian migrants quickly assimilated, giving up their languages and customs as they sought employment in factories and as street merchants.

The Indian migrants work in various sectors of Lebanese economy such as construction, manufacturing and the service sector.

He used false promises of light work, comfortable housing and schools to make work on Gladstone plantations appear attractive to prospective Indian migrants.

In total, 1.2 million Indian migrants were handled by emigration depots worldwide, becoming the global working class of the British Empire.

The Indian migrants that passed through the island have left a distinct mark on the Mauritian society.