COVID 19 and Labour Migration in India

This book, with articles by leading experts and researchers, explores the ongoing concerns of labour migration in India in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This book, with articles by leading experts and researchers, explores the ongoing concerns of labor migration in India in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It studies various aspects such as: impact of COVID-19 pandemic on rural migrants gender implications of agrarian change and labor migration in out-migrating states geography of out-migrant husbands of women left behind home processes of international labor out-migration and remittances occupational mobility of migrants social exclusion, discrimination, and identity crisis of migrants in urban slums vulnerability of low-skilled migrants at the urban destinations and the implications of short-term economic shocks like demonetization and COVID-led lockdown and sociological implications of development, distress, and youth migration in India Drawing on integrative frameworks that combine primary research and secondary sources from a variety of disciplines, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of demography, economics, development studies, public policy, sociology, and geography.

Pagina's: 240, Editie: Eerste editie, Hardcover, Routledge India