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India's migrant workers and the pandemic / edited by Rijayoti Bandyopadhyay, Paula Banerjee and Ranabir Samaddar.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers--India.
- Foreign workers.
- Migrant labor--India--Social conditions.
- Migrant labor.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects--India.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Social conditions.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 285 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge : Social Science Press, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Contents:
- General Introduction: The Shiver of the Pandemic<BR>PART I: ANALYSES<BR>1. Corona Virus and the World-Economy: The Old is Dead, the New Can't be Born 2. Covid-19 and Gender Transgressions 3. Covid-19 Jurisprudence: Triadic Ethical Framework and the Faultlines of Constitutional Governance 4. Economic Implications of Covid-19 Pandemic: Migration, Informality, Postcolonial Capitalist Development 5. Corona Pandemic, Sudden Visibility of Migrant Workers, and the Indian Economy 6. Between Homes; Without Homes: Migration, Circularity and Domesticity<BR>PART II: REPORTS: THE LOCKDOWN EXPERIENCE/TRACTS OF TIME<BR>Report I: Hunger, Humiliation, and Death: Perils of Migrant Workers in the Time of Covid-19<BR>Report II: Insecurity and Fear Travel as Labour Travels in the Time of Pandemic <BR>Report III: The Return of Bihari Migrants after the Covid-19 Lockdown <BR>Report IV: The Sudden Visibility of Sangram Tudu<BR>Report V: Glimpses of Life in the Time of Corona <BR>Report VI: Migrant Workers and the Ethics of Care during a Pandemic <BR>Report VII: Social Distancing, "Touch-Me-Not" and the Migrant Worker<BR>Report VIII: Bringing the Border Home: Indian Partition 2020<BR>Report IX: Counting and Accounting for Those on the Long Walk Home<BR>Report X: How One State Can Learn from Another
- Migrant Workers in Kolkata<BR>
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 09, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781000507256
- 1000507254
- 9781000507201
- 1000507203
- 9781003246121
- 1003246125
- Publisher Number:
- 40030873262
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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