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Media, Migrants and the Pandemic in India

A Reader
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
258 Seiten
Englisch
Routledgeerschienen am27.05.2024
The national lockdown to contain the Covid-19 pandemic in India resulted in the loss of work and displacement of thousands of urban migrant workers. This book records the arduous journey home for many of these workers and analyses the grave effects the pandemic has had on jobs, livelihoods, and the health of urban migrant workers.mehr
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KlappentextThe national lockdown to contain the Covid-19 pandemic in India resulted in the loss of work and displacement of thousands of urban migrant workers. This book records the arduous journey home for many of these workers and analyses the grave effects the pandemic has had on jobs, livelihoods, and the health of urban migrant workers.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-032-27137-8
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum27.05.2024
Seiten258 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 15 mm
Gewicht399 g
Artikel-Nr.61507859

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction BHARAT BHUSHANPART 1Lost in counting 91.1 Faceless and dispossessed: India´s circular migrants in the times of COVID-19 PRIYA DESHINGKAR1.2 How many casual workers in the cities have sought to go home? NOMAAN MAJID1.3 Migration in India and the impact of the lockdown on migrants MADHUNIKA IYER1.4 Labour Commissioner puts total number of migrant workers at 26 lakh, says 10% in relief camps GAURAV VIVEK BHATNAGARPART 2Abandoned by law 2.1 Why India´s legal and labour system needs to be reconfigured to really help migrant workers SATVIK VARMA2.2 COVID-19 crisis exposes India´s neglect of informal workers JENNY SULFATH AND BALU SUNILRAJ2.3 National Commission for Women: Advisory to address needs of internal women migrants in India during COVID-19 lockdown 2.4 How the Supreme Court and the High Courts have dealt with the worst migrant crisis faced by the nation EJAZ MAQBOOL, AKRITI CHAUBEY, AND MOHAMMAD ISA HAKIM2.5 Migrant workers, the lockdown, and the judiciary HARSH MANDER2.6 Justice Madan Lokur: Supreme Court deserves an F grade for its handling of migrants MADAN B. LOKUR2.7 Women workers in labour codes INDRANI MAZUMDAR AND NEETHA N. PILLAIPART 3The long march home 3.1 No train. No bus. Just a rickety cycle to cover 600 km - on an empty stomach SUPRIYA SHARMA3.2 Nightmare on Shramik Specials V. SRIDHAR3.3 Not just the Aurangabad accident, 383 people have died due to the punitive lockdown KABIR AGARWAL3.4 As Manipuri workers return home from Goa, what does the future hold for Baby Emmanuel Quarentino?NANDITA HAKSAR3.5 COVID-19: Odia women migrants suffer mental stress, feel nobody heeds their plight RAKHI GHOSH3.6 Between household abuse and employer apathy, domestic workers bear the brunt of lockdown DEEPANSHU MOHAN, KENSIYA KENNEDY, MANSI SINGH, AND SHIVANI AGARWAL3.7 Social distancing and sex workers in India PRIYANKA TRIPATHI AND CHHANDITA DASPART 4No wages, no jobs, no food 4.1 Can the State let employers walk away from lockdown wages? BHARAT BHUSHAN4.2 Hunger grows as India´s lockdown kills jobs RAHUL LAHOTI, AMIT BASOLE, ROSA ABRAHAM, SURBHI KESAR, ANDPAARITOSH NATH4.3 COVID-19: Intra-state migrants marooned too BHANUPRIYA RAO4.4 Bihar´s migrants return to face stigma, under-prepared medical facilities PARUL AGRAWAL4.5 Across India, workers complain that employers used lockdown to defraud them of wages they are owed RAJIV KHANDELWAL4.6 India cannot fight a pandemic with police lathis. It must ensure people have food - and dignity SUPRIYA SHARMA4.7 Differently abled migrant women workers grapple with the pandemic VEDIKA KAKAR4.8 Pandemic crisis: Migrant home-based women workers work 8 hours/day for Rs 10-15 CENNY THOMAS AND NIVEDITA JAYARAM4.9 Pandemic-induced return of the migrant workers: Response of West Bengal DEBASHIS AICHPART 5Pandemic as an opportunity: Changing labour laws 5.1 May Day: Twelve-hour working day notifications JANE COX5.2 Changes in labour laws will turn the clock back by over a centuryRAMAPRIYA GOPALAKRISHNAN5.3 Labour law changes: Innocuous mistakes, sleight of hand, or taking sides ATUL SOOD AND PAARITOSH NATH5.4 Why Adityanath´s simplistic Migration Commission is a non-starter JUHIE SINGH5.5 Can labour reforms help women migrant workers during COVID-19? ELLINA SAMANTROYPART 6Media and migrant workers: Invisible become visible 6.1 Media in the time of COVID-19 BHUPEN SINGH6.2 How the Modi government manufactured public opinion during the migrant crisis AMAN ABHISHEK6.3 Not just the media, organised politics too failed India´s migrant workers RANABIR SAMADDAR6.4 Migrant crisis amid COVID is why we need journalism of misery SMRUTI KOPPIKAR6.5 Lawyer Apar Gupta on what the Indian Supreme Court´s order on COVID-19 coverage means for journalists KUNAL MAJUMDER6.6 Audit of bigotry: How Indian media vilified Tablighi Jamaat over the coronavirus outbreak AYAN SHARMA AND CHAHAK GUPTAAfterword: Were any lessons learnt? BHARAT BHUSHANIndexmehr

Autor

Bharat Bhushan is a journalist and editor based in Delhi. He was the foundereditor of Mail Today, Executive Editor of The Hindustan Times, Editor (Delhi) of The Telegraph, Editor of Catchnews .com , and Editor (Express News Service) and Washington Correspondent for The Indian Express. He writes on foreign policy and national politics. His other assignments include working as Assistant Editor for Business India and The Times of India and as Senior Academic Consultant for the Indian Council for Social Science Research.