Long read: India's coronavirus mass migration: how we've misunderstood the Indian migrant labourer
Nagpal, S. & Srivastava, V.
(3 April 2020)
Long read: India's coronavirus mass migration: how we've misunderstood the Indian migrant labourer.
South Asia @ LSE.
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.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2020 The Authors |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 20 May 2020 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104502 |