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Migrant Workers

Employer-tied Visas: Posing Challenges to Human Rights

The difficulties prompted by employer-tied visas are fairly sufficient to invite a proper dialogue on the issue. An international panel… Read More

Migration and the State Amid COVID-19

Facilitating safe migration requires data and policy,but both doesn’t exist in our country, said Prof Irudaya S. Rajan, Centre for… Read More

Justice for Migrants: Disenfranchised Workers and COVID-19

In the wake of severe injustices meted out to migrant workers, the casualties of COVID-19, some civil society organisations (CSOs)… Read More

Women’s Labour and Migration: The Missing Perspective

Discussion around labour migration has gripped the nation after lakhs of workers left cities to return to their villages for… Read More

COVID Does Not Discriminate, An Unequal World Does

Statistics by the United Nations/ Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA) reveal that there are 172 million migrant workers… Read More

Migrant Workers’ Return: Source and Destination States Must Cooperate

After three long months of distress, a large number of migrant workers (estimated to be about 2 crore) have reached… Read More

COVID-19: Social Media and Cause of Migrant Workers

Noam Chomsky in his book Media Control highlights how media have been turned into a propaganda a tool by elites… Read More

Despondency Amidst COVID-19: Concerns of Returnee Migrant Workers

India continues to dominate in the international migration and constitutes 6.5 per cent (18 million) of the total 272 million… Read More

Migrant Workers from the Gulf: Reintegration and Rehabilitation Must

As the world finds itself caught in the grip of global pandemic COVID-19, plight of migrant workers has assumed greater… Read More

Migrant Workers from the Gulf: An Exodus that Can’t be Downplayed

The promise of prosperity that propelled Indians to flock to the Gulf countries is fast dissipating as the Cooperation Council… Read More