Vol. IV
Issue: 1
Journal of Migration Affairs
September 2021
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Mapping Memory: Home and Belonging for Burma Repatriates in West Bengal
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 MOREMigrants Fighting for Water Rights: Sangam Vihar and Deoli, Delhi
What 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 MOREMigrant Labourers’ COVID-19 Lockdown Experience: Emerging Trajectory of Political Expression
The 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.
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Walking on the Margins of the National Imagination: Migrant Workers Amid Covid-19
As 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 Coronavirus Pandemic and the Overseas Indian Migrant Workers’ Crisis: Impacts on Polity and Foreign Policy
The 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 MOREEmbodiment in Social Accounts of Indian Migrant Workers’ Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic
On 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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