Long read: India's coronavirus mass migration: how we've misunderstood the Indian migrant labourer

Nagpal, Sugandha; and Srivastava, Vatsalya (2020) Long read: India's coronavirus mass migration: how we've misunderstood the Indian migrant labourer [['eprint_typename_blog_post' not defined]]

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On 24 March, in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a complete lockdown of the country. In response, millions of migrant workers left their jobs and began to return to their home villages - but why? Here Sugandha Nagpal (O.P. Jindal Global University, India) and Vatsalya Srivastava argue why most interpretations of their motivations to head home maybe wrong.

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Copyright holders	© 2020 The Authors
Keywords	Covid-19, coronavirus
Departments	LSE
Date Deposited	20 May 2020 14:21
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104502

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