COVID-19 and Labor Migration in India

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:

• impact of COVID-19 pandemic on rural migrants;

• gender implications of agrarian change and labor migration in out-migrating states;

• geography of out-migrant husbands of women left behind home;

• processes of international labor 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.