Migrant Media

Gendered impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been poorly understood due to the absence of sex disaggregated data. Certainly these data are unavailable for vaccine for the virus as well. Many have termed this practice as “science by press…
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With migrant workers, women and children facing greatest exploitation and traumas of the time, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a path-breaking period in history, said Padma Shri Dr Sunitha Krishan, Founder of Prajwala. She was speaking at…
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Migrant workers are no strangers to injustice. They were vulnerable in the pre-COVID world, but the pandemic has exacerbated their vulnerabilities to the extent that if no remedial mechanisms are adopted now, grave and incorrigible wrongs…
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The whole world is facing an unprecedented crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises leave their short and long-term impact on various spheres of society, particularly on internal, international migrants or diaspora. India has…
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Employment problem in a developing country context cannot be gauged merely in terms of open unemployment rate. The phenomenon of working poor engaged in low productivity activities with meagre earnings is a vast manifestation of the…
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COVID-19 has shaken the world in terms of the economic impact it has had on the international migrant workforce. The health crisis has displaced many migrants across the globe, pushing them out of their ‘neo-settlements’ back to their…
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Migration determinants are often understood econometrically and placed under the push–pull and gravity models. The factors, which compel people to leave their place of origin, or the ‘drivers of migration’ are complex. They need to be…
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As the whole world is facing the adverse impacts of COVID-19 pandemic, restrictive measures are being imposed by several countries as a short-term measure to restrict the mobility of people. In this context, there is a need to envision a…
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All of us know what has happened during the last week of April to the first week of June 2020 in response to the nationwide lockdown to stave off COVID-19 pandemic. Suddenly millions of migrant workers started moving out of the city and…
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Migrant workers have been subjected to gross violations of their labour rights on a large scale including the very important issue of ‘wage theft’. Civil society and various actors have made a call for transitional justice mechanism to be…
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