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

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032007087
• ISBN13: 9781032007083
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"