Getting home during lockdown: migration disruption, labour control and linked lives in India at the time of Covid-19
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چکیده
This paper uses the Covid-19 induced migration disruption in India as a lens to interrogate what this acute moment reveals about precarity of India’s migrant workers and their experiences work ordinary times. Interviews with interstate migrants from north employed Tiruppur region southern state Tamil Nadu present narratives being stuck at when lockdown began, subsequent struggles get home, finally plans return later 2020. Migrant accounts shed light on (1) local labour control regime destination that routinely keeps locked into highly exploitative environments, was intensified during lockdown, (2) ways which thrives spatio-temporal separation productive reproductive spheres migrants’ linked lives. The also how flexibly adapted produce simultaneous disposability unfreedom circular workers. Drawing critical literature regimes, under contemporary capitalism, we show pandemic anything but transformative for vast workforce.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1369-183X', '1469-9451']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2022.2099360