COVID-19 and Labour Migration in India

Evidences from the Pandemic
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-00708-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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. It studies various aspects such as: • impact of COVID-19 pandemic on rural migrants; • gender implications of agrarian change and labour migration in out-migrating states; • geography of out-migrant husbands of women left behind home; • processes of international labour 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaur, Kirti

Keshri, Kunal

Rajan, S. Irudaya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Epidemiologie, Medizinische Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Kunal Keshri, S. Irudaya Rajan and Kirti Gaur

Part I - Evidences of Labour Migration from Gender Perspective

2. Geography of out-migrant husbands of left behind women in India: an exploratory study from the NFHS-4 Data

Kirti Gaur and Kunal Keshri

3. Indian mothers abroad - examining health care access among factory workers in Nepal during COVID-19

Tushar Dakua, Kailash Chandra Das, Kunal Keshri

4. Migration, agrarain change and gender implications: recent trends in Bihar

Biplab Dhak

5. A profile sketch of middle-class women labour migrants in contemporary Urban India

Tina Dutta and Annapurna Shaw

Part II - Evidences of Labour Migration from Country as a Whole

6. Intrenational migration in contemporary India

Rikil Chyrmang and Kishlay Kirti

7. Job security and vulnerability of low skilled migrants in urban India

Jajati Keshari Parida

8. Impact of the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic on livelihoods, transport and food security among short-term or temporary labour migrants in India

Aravinda Meera Guntupalli, Sandhya Rani Mohapatra, Kunal Keshri, Benoy Peter, William Joe, Jennie Mcdiarmid and Sutapa Agarwal

9. Development, distress and youth migration: some sociological implications of demographic dividend in India

Muneer Illath

10. Moving to a new location for work: How easy is it to get it right?

Debasis Barik, Manjistha Banerji and Dinesh Kumar Tiwari

Part III - Evidences from Different Regions and States

11. Social exclusion through the lens of fragmented social capital: a study of migrants in slums

Nishikant Singh and Deepak K Mishra

12. Initial impact of COVID-19 lockdown on migrant labourers from Kalahandi, Odisha

Benoy Peter, Liby Johnson, Shachi Sanghvi and Jobin Chacko

13. Experiences of migrant workers in marine fisheries: glimpses from two fishing villages in Kerala

Nidhin K P

14. COVID-19, lockdown and the plight of returned migrants of Jharkhand

Harishwar Dayal

Über Autor(innen)

Kunal Keshri (Dr.), faculty at International Institute of Population Sciences, Mumbai’s Department of Migration and Development, is a leading scholar on internal, temporary, and seasonal migration. His research spans caste, nutrition, ageing, urbanization, and public health, with notable work including Socio-economic Determinants of Temporary Labour Migration in India.

S Irudaya Rajan (Prof.) is Chair of the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD), Kerala, India. Dr Rajan is the editor of two Routledge series - India Migration Report and South Asia Migration Report and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Migration and Development (Sage).

Kirti Gaur (Dr.), Manager–Research and M&E at Salaam Bombay Foundation, Mumbai, has 15+ years’ expertise in population and development. Her research spans migration, adolescent well-being, and public health, with acclaimed publications, including her recent NFHS-5 based study on paternal migration and child stunting.