Vol. VI
Issue: 1&2
Journal of Migration Affairs
Sept 2023 & March 2024
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Communalising the Socio-Political Space and/amidst the Pandemic
The politics of pathological religious hatred pursued by India’s majoritarian governing party and its myriad affiliates can hardly be overlooked, especially in the context of how it manifested in the Indian government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
READ MOREThe Governing Logic of the Gated Enclaves during COVID-19: For Whom?
Rapheeja Bibi (38), a native of Cooch Behar in West Bengal, arrived with her husband Aslam (41) in the National Capital Region in 2013. After several changes of jobs and residences within the region, she reached Noida in 2015 to seek help from her maternal uncle, a mason in a busy neighbourhood of Noida; the ongoing construction work at the numerous big construction sites in this neighbourhood provided higher chances of employment to informal labourers.
READ MORESocial Distancing Between the State and the Migrant in India: A Citizenship Perspective
On 25 March 2020, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, imposed the world’s severest lockdown in a bid to stem the threat of Covid-19.1 The stringent lockdown triggered a mass exodus from cities across India, with panic-stricken migrant workers desperately trying to get back to their homes in villages.
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Perspectives on Return Migration and Rural Society during COVID-19 in Bhojpur District in Bihar
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the government announced a nationwide lockdown on 24 March 2020 to control the spread of the virus which resulted in the closure of factories, shops, malls, and other enterprises, leading to loss of jobs and livelihood for millions of labourers.
READ MOREWomen Workers on the Move in South Asia: Shifting Identities in Segmented Labour Markets
Global evidence has shown that the incomes and working conditions of immigrant populations in general, and migrant women in particular, are different from those of local male workers due to discrimination based on ethnicity and gender. Against this background, this paper explores the segmented nature of the labour market for migrant women in the informal sector within South Asia. The paper finds that migrant women from India
READ MOREWomen, Migration and Labour Exploitation: Challenging Frameworks
Migration narratives often resist incorporating a gendered lens, thereby erasing or failing to account for the ‘herstories’ of women, and for persons from marginal backgrounds who move in search of freedom, survival and autonomy. This is not dissimilar to how women’s work, especially when exploitative, has been conceptualised to date. Often formulated as social-reproductive work, this conceptual
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