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- Title
Plights of Migrant Workers in Lockdown amid COVID-19.
- Authors
Siddaramu B.
- Abstract
Migrant workers are highly marginalised and vulnerable group who are subjected to undergo various kind of exploitation. Catastrophe caused by COVID 19 has utterly affected migrant workers who work in unorganised sectors in India. Unplanned, mismanagement and monumental mistake of policy makers have been forced migrant worker to suffer in silence. Migrant workers stranded on street and struggled to survive. Daily wagers are among worst hit. They do not have source of survival. Landlords have thrown them out of the rented house when they are unable pay rent. Lockdown has pushed them to destitution and devastation. Huger hunts them. They started walking with humble belonging on their heads in scratching heat, swollen and injured foot to reach destination. Many migrant workers have died during lockdown due to starvation, accidents, suicide, police brutality and lack of medical care. Even today one can see the helpless, hapless and sapless conditions of migrant worker. Lockdown has exposed how unequal the society is and how much vulnerable migrant workers are. This article talks about how people and policies have become insensitive towards migrant workers, how lockdown has caused massive miseries to migrant workers and role played by Government, Judiciary and NGOs in India to address the issues of migrant workers.
- Subjects
MIGRANT labor; STAY-at-home orders; COVID-19 pandemic; MENTAL health; SERVICES for migrant labor
- Publication
AAYAM: AKGIM Journal of Management, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
2231-4326
- Publication type
Article