Publication Date:
2024-03-19
Description:
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India’s migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration. The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which unfolded in the middle of the pandemic. It highlights how the pandemic-lockdown disproportionately affected marginalised social groups – Dalits and the Adivasi communities, women and Muslim workers. The book reflects on the socio-economic vulnerabilities of migrant workers, their rights to dignity, questions around citizenship, and the need for robust systems of democratic and constitutional accountability. The chapters also critically look at the gendered vulnerabilities of women and non-cis persons in both public and private spaces, the exacerbation of social stratification and prejudices, incidents of intimidation by the administration and the police forces, and proposed labour reforms which might create greater insecurities for migrant workers. This important and timely book will be of great interest to researchers and students of sociology, public policy, development studies, gender studies, labour and economics, and law.
Keywords:
UN
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Tamil Nadu
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Pandemic vulnerabilities
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Labour Control Regime
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Labour reforms
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Corona Virus
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India's migrant workers
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Violating
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Adivasi communities
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PDS
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Public health systems
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Inter-state Migrant Workmen
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Uttar Pradesh
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IDPs
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ICU Unit
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Migrant Welfare
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UIDAI
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Mainstream Trade Unions
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Swan
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Overburdening
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Migrant Workers
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Unpaid Care Work
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PIB
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Welfare Board
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Pil
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Purchase Household Items
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State Labour Relations
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Women Domestic Workers
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Zoë
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Middle Aged Married Women
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bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTB Regional studies
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bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTF Development studies
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration, immigration & emigration
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology
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bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCF Labour economics
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bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
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bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGL Regional geography
Language:
English
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