COVID-19 and Labor Migration in India: Evidences from the Pandemic

Kunal Keshri (Curatore)

S. Irudaya Rajan (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2026

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.

• Curatore: Kunal Keshri, S. Irudaya Rajan
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 240 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 630 gr.
• EAN: 9781032007083

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