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Indias Migrant Workers and the Pandemic

A sudden announcement was made by the government on 24 March 2020 of a complete lockdown of the country, due to the spectre of Coronavirus. Indias Migrant Workers and the Pandemic was being written as the crisis was unfolding with no end in sight.

Migrant workers from different parts of India had no choice but to trek back hundreds of kilometres carrying their scanty belongings and dragging their hungry and thirsty children in the scorching heat of the plains of India to reach home.

How did caste, race, gender, and other fault lines operate in this governmental strategy to cope with a virus epidemic?

The eight papers in this collection, highlight the ethical and political implications of the epidemic particularly for Indias migrant workers. What were the forces of power at play in this war against the epidemic? What measures could have been taken and need to be taken now?

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay works at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IISER, Mohali. His research area is Urban History, Informal Economy and Infrastructure Studies. He is a historical anthropologist of the Present. Some of his publications are Caste and the Frontiers of Postcolonial Accumulation, alongside Ranabir Samaddar, in Accumulation in Postcolonial Capitalism: India and Beyond (Springer, 2016), and Institutionalizing Informality: The Hawkers Question in Postcolonial Calcutta in Modern Asian Studies, 50 (2), (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Paula Banerjee, best known for her work on women in borderlands and women and forced migration, is the President of International Association for Studies in Forced Migration. She is a faculty member of the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, one of the largest and oldest Universities in South Asia. She is also the Director of the avant garde South Asian think tank called Calcutta Research Group. Her recent publications include Statelessness in South Asia (2016), Unstable Populations, Anxious States (edited 2013), Women in Indian Borderlands (edited, 2012) and Borders, Histories, Existences: Gender and Beyond (2010) which has been acclaimed as a best seller.

Ranabir Samaddar holds the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group, and is a political thinker and one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies. Author of several well known books and distinguished papers, his writings on migration, labour, colonialism, and the nation state have signalled a new turn in critical postcolonial thinking. Some of his best known works are Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination (Routledge, 2014), Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) and is editor of From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade (Social Science Press, 2018).

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ISBN: 9781032158921 (hbk)

ISBN: 9781003246121 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003246121

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Contents

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Paula Banerjee and Ranabir Samaddar

PART I: ANALYSES

1. Corona Virus and the World-Economy: The Old is Dead, the New Cant be Born

Ravi Arvind Palat

2. Covid-19 and Gender Transgressions

Paula Banerjee

3. Covid-19 Jurisprudence: Triadic Ethical Framework and the Faultlines of Constitutional Governance

Kalpana Kannabiran

4. Economic Implications of Covid-19 Pandemic: Migration, Informality, Postcolonial Capitalist Development

Rajan Pandey and Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay

5. Corona Pandemic, Sudden Visibility of Migrant Workers, and the Indian Economy

Byasdeb Dasgupta

6. Between Homes; Without Homes: Migration, Circularity and Domesticity

Samita Sen

PART II: REPORTS: THE LOCKDOWN EXPERIENCE/TRACTS OF TIME

Report I: Hunger, Humiliation, and Death: Perils of Migrant Workers in the Time of Covid-19

Utsa Sarmin

Report II: Insecurity and Fear Travel as Labour Travels in the Time of Pandemic

Manish K Jha and Ajeet K Pankaj

Report III: The Return of Bihari Migrants after the Covid-19 Lockdown

Anamika Priyadarshini and Sonamani Chaudhury

Report IV: The Sudden Visibility of Sangram Tudu

Rajat Roy

Report V: Glimpses of Life in the Time of Corona

Madhurilata Basu and Sibaji Pratim Basu

Report VI: Migrant Workers and the Ethics of Care during a Pandemic

Ambar Kumar Ghosh and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

Report VII: Social Distancing, Touch-Me-Not and the Migrant Worker

Ishita Dey

Report VIII: Bringing the Border Home: Indian Partition 2020

Samata Biswas

Report IX: Counting and Accounting for Those on the Long Walk Home

Sabir Ahamed

Report X: How One State Can Learn from Another Migrant Workers in Kolkata

Swati Bhattacharjee and Abhijnan Sarkar

1. Part I: Analyses
   1. 1. Corona Virus and the World-Economy: The Old is Dead, the New Cant be Born
   2. 2. Covid-19 and Gender Transgressions
   3. 3. Covid-19 Jurisprudence: Triadic Ethical Framework and the Faultlines of Constitutional Governance
   4. 4. Economic Implications of Covid-19 Pandemic: Migration, Informality, Postcolonial Capitalist Development
   5. 5. Corona Pandemic, Sudden Visibility of Migrant Workers, and the Indian Economy
   6. 6. Between Homes; Without Homes: Migration, Circularity and Domesticity
2. Part II: Reports: The Lockdown Experience/Tracts of Time
   1. Report I: Hunger, Humiliation, and Death: Perils of Migrant Workers in the Time of Covid-19
   2. Report II: Insecurity and Fear Travel as Labour Travels in the Time of Pandemic

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