Migrants

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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The difficulties prompted by employer-tied visas are fairly sufficient to invite a proper dialogue on the issue. An international panel of scholars and practitioners recently looked into the challenges and alternatives to employer-tied…
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The temporary closure of international borders and lockdown to protect the spread of COVID-19 have impacted 20.4 million refugees and millions of migrant workers. At this time, it is very early to claim how this pandemic has affected…
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There are several factors that impact high-skilled migration. Healthcare situation in the sending and receiving countries, economy and politics are some of them which is an outcome of a panel discussion jointly organized by The Global…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has an unprecedented impact on mobility and migration. While the healthcare crisis has halted labour migration to a large extent, there is greater impetus on migration of high-skilled workers, notably healthcare…
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The plights of migrant workers have not been heard in the South American regions when the COVID-19 crisis loomed in the horizon. While for the West Africa, the Ebola epidemic was just ending and people were back to normal. A crisis within…
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Facilitating safe migration requires data and policy,but both doesn’t exist in our country, said Prof Irudaya S. Rajan, Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in his Special Lecture organised by the Centre for…
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In the wake of severe injustices meted out to migrant workers, the casualties of COVID-19, some civil society organisations (CSOs) along with trade union federations collectively launched a campaign on 1 June 2020 necessitating a…
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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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