India's Migrant Workers and the Pandemic
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, highli…
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Weitere Autoren: Banerjee, Paula (Hrsg.) / Samaddar, Ranabir (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-00-050720-1
- EAN: 9781000507201
- Produktnummer: 36814764
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 294 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
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.
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