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. |COVID-19 and Labor Migration in India Evidences from the Pandemic | Asian Studies
