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Journal of Migration Affairs
Sept 2023 & March 2024
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Migrant 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.
READ MOREWalking 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.
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Embodiment 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.
READ MORESlums, Migrant Workers, and COVID-19 in Mumbai
The COVID-19 health crisis in India has exposed the gruesome reality of urban India and uncovered the underbelly of the entire process of urbanisation. It also unfolded obscured narrations about the status of migrant workers in India.
READ MOREEconomic Implications of Reverse Migration in India
The COVID-19 pandemic has been negatively impacting the entire world economy unprecedentedly, and India is no exception. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Government of India declared a nationwide lockdown on March 24, 2020.
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Issue: 1&2
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