India's Migrant Workers and the Pandemic - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032158921 ISBN 13: 9781032158921

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

A sudden announcement was made by the government on 24 March 2020 of a complete lockdown of the country, due to the spectre of Coronavirus. India’s Migrant Workers and the Pandemic was being written as the crisis was unfolding with no end in sight. Migrant workers from different parts of India had no choice but to trek back hundreds of kilometres carrying their scanty belongings and dragging their hungry and thirsty children in the scorching heat of the plains of India to reach home.

How did caste, race, gender, and other fault lines operate in this governmental strategy to cope with a virus epidemic?
The eight papers in this collection, highlight the ethical and political implications of the epidemic―particularly for India’s migrant workers. What were the forces of power at play in this war against the epidemic? What measures could have been taken and need to be taken now?

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About this title

About the Author

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay works at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER, Mohali.

Paula Banerjee, best known for her work on women in borderlands and women and forced migration, is the President of International Association for Studies in Forced Migration. She is a faculty member of the Department of South and Southeast.

Ranabir Samaddar holds the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group, and is a political thinker and one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032158921
• ISBN 13: 9781032158921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294
• Editor: Bandyopadhyay Ritajyoti, Banerjee Paula, Samaddar Ranabir