Full Description
This book, with articles by leading experts and researchers, explores the ongoing concerns of labour migration in India in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It studies various aspects such as: • impact of COVID-19 pandemic on rural migrants; • gender implications of agrarian change and labour migration in out-migrating states; • geography of out-migrant husbands of women left behind home; • processes of international labour out-migration and remittances; • occupational mobility of migrants; • social exclusion, discrimination and identity crisis of migrants in urban slums; • vulnerability of low-skilled migrants at the urban destinations and the implications of short-term economic shocks like demonetization and COVID-led lockdown • and sociological implications of development, distress and youth migration in India.
Drawing on integrative frameworks that combine primary research and secondary sources from a variety of disciplines, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of demography, economics, development studies, public policy, sociology and geography.
Contents
1. Introduction
Kunal Keshri, S. Irudaya Rajan and Kirti Gaur
Part I - Evidences of Labour Migration from Gender Perspective
2. Geography of out-migrant husbands of left behind women in India: an exploratory study from the NFHS-4 Data
Kirti Gaur and Kunal Keshri
3. Indian mothers abroad - examining health care access among factory workers in Nepal during COVID-19
Tushar Dakua, Kailash Chandra Das, Kunal Keshri
4. Migration, agrarain change and gender implications: recent trends in Bihar
Biplab Dhak
5. A profile sketch of middle-class women labour migrants in contemporary Urban India
Tina Dutta and Annapurna Shaw
Part II - Evidences of Labour Migration from Country as a Whole
6. International migration in contemporary India
Rikil Chyrmang and Kishlay Kirti
7. Job security and vulnerability of low skilled migrants in urban India
Jajati Keshari Parida
8. Impact of the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic on livelihoods, transport and food security among short-term or temporary labour migrants in India
Aravinda Meera Guntupalli, Sandhya Rani Mohapatra, Kunal Keshri, Benoy Peter, William Joe, Jennie Mcdiarmid and Sutapa Agarwal
9. Development, distress and youth migration: some sociological implications of demographic dividend in India
Muneer Illath
10. Moving to a new location for work: How easy is it to get it right?
Debasis Barik, Manjistha Banerji and Dinesh Kumar Tiwari
Part III - Evidences from Different Regions and States
11. Social exclusion through the lens of fragmented social capital: a study of migrants in slums
Nishikant Singh and Deepak K Mishra
12. Initial impact of COVID-19 lockdown on migrant labourers from Kalahandi, Odisha
Benoy Peter, Liby Johnson, Shachi Sanghvi and Jobin Chacko
13. Experiences of migrant workers in marine fisheries: glimpses from two fishing villages in Kerala
Nidhin K P
14. COVID-19, lockdown and the plight of returned migrants of Jharkhand
Harishwar Dayal
