Migrant Media

Discussion around labour migration has gripped the nation after lakhs of workers left cities to return to their villages for safety and familiarity in these uncertain times. Migrant workers from cities scrambled to get to their homes and…
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As states grapple with the twin crises of COVID-19 and a migration, the need to understand global and regional frameworks governing migration has increased. Tracing the beginnings of migration as a global issue to the UN International…
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COVID-19 pandemic has brought immense challenges to migrants all over the world. Therefore, it is pertinent for countries to learn from each other as to how the impact of the pandemic on migrants can be minimised. In such context,…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the hitherto vulnerable migrants and refugees into extremely precarious conditions. Migrant workers are losing their source of livelihood in addition to being more exposed to the virus owing to their…
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Statistics by the United Nations/ Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA) reveal that there are 172 million migrant workers worldwide and women constitute roughly 40 per cent of this population. Women migrants form a huge…
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After three long months of distress, a large number of migrant workers (estimated to be about 2 crore) have reached their homes. As lockdown is being gradually opened, and economic activity is being re-started, several states (Punjab,…
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Noam Chomsky in his book Media Control highlights how media have been turned into a propaganda a tool by elites to serve their causes. This might be equally true during pandemic times when fight against COVID-19 has many interest groups as…
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Brain drain is the process where highly trained and qualified personnel migrate from developing to developed countries in search of new opportunities, better standard of living and quality of life. The process of brain drain began in 1960s…
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The socio-cultural and economic effect of the prevailing global situation of COVID-19 on the migrant population was discussed by a panel of international experts. The webinar was organised by the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and…
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India continues to dominate in the international migration and constitutes 6.5 per cent (18 million) of the total 272 million migrants in the world. International migration results in huge remittance that stands at around 2.5 per cent of…
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