Growing Precarity, Circular Migration, and the Lockdown in India

The paper examines the nature of the migrant crisis in India after the country-wide lockdown in March 2020 and brings out the types of labour migrants who were severely adversely affected by the lockdown, leading to their exodus towards their native villages. It further assesses the government’s res...

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Autor principal: Srivastava, Ravi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2020
Materias:
Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7482057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32929315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41027-020-00260-3
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Sumario:The paper examines the nature of the migrant crisis in India after the country-wide lockdown in March 2020 and brings out the types of labour migrants who were severely adversely affected by the lockdown, leading to their exodus towards their native villages. It further assesses the government’s response and proposes some key policy imperatives.

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