COVID-19 and Labor Migration in India

<p>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:</p><p>• impact of COVID-19 pandemic on rural migrants;</p><p>• gender implications of agrarian change and labor migration in out-migrating states;</p><p>• geography of out-migrant husbands of women left behind home;</p><p>• processes of international labor out-migration and remittances;</p><p>• occupational mobility of migrants;</p><p>• social exclusion, discrimination, and identity crisis of migrants in urban slums;</p><p>• vulnerability of low-skilled migrants at the urban destinations and the implications of short-term economic shocks like demonetization and COVID-led lockdown; and</p><p>• sociological implications of development, distress, and youth migration in India.</p><p>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.</p>