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
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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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spelling pubmed-74820572020-09-10 Growing Precarity, Circular Migration, and the Lockdown in India Srivastava, Ravi Indian J Labour Econ Perspective 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. Springer India 2020-09-10 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7482057/ /pubmed/32929315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41027-020-00260-3 Text en © Indian Society of Labour Economics 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Growing Precarity, Circular Migration, and the Lockdown in India
title Growing Precarity, Circular Migration, and the Lockdown in India
title_full Growing Precarity, Circular Migration, and the Lockdown in India
title_fullStr Growing Precarity, Circular Migration, and the Lockdown in India
title_full_unstemmed Growing Precarity, Circular Migration, and the Lockdown in India
title_short Growing Precarity, Circular Migration, and the Lockdown in India
title_sort growing precarity, circular migration, and the lockdown in india
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url 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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