Vol. IV
Issue: 1
Journal of Migration Affairs
September 2021
Memory plays a vital role in the context of migration. It impacts the views, opinions, ideologies, beliefs, and perceptions of the people, further influencing every other sphere of their lives.
READ MOREWhat does the flow of water tell us about a city, its people and its mechanism of politics? Does this relationship give us insights into urban ecology and politics? In what ways are city, nature and social power interlinked?
READ MOREThe COVID-19 lockdown in India presents a scenario where state action sharply exposed the everyday structural realities and vulnerabilities of the country’s migrant labourers to the public eye.
READ MOREAs the Covid-19 pandemic gradually gripped the world, after its emergence in the city of Wuhan in China, countries prepared a response.1 While the first case in India emerged in late January, the government imposed a nationwide lockdown starting at midnight on 24 March.
READ MOREThe COVID-19 pandemic has brought the existential crises of Indian migrant workers, both domestic and overseas, to the centre stage of public discourse like never before.
READ MOREOn 24 May 2020, tens of thousands of daily wage migrant workers in India suddenly realised that they were without work due to the abrupt announcement of a nationwide lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Vol. IV
Issue: 1
Journal of Migration Affairs
September 2021
Vol. III
Issue: 2
Journal of Migration Affairs
March 2021