McGowran, Peter;
Mathews, Mishal A;
Johns, Hannah;
Harasym, Mary C;
Raju, Emmanuel;
Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja;
(2023)
Investigating the conditions of vulnerability experienced by migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala, India.
Disasters
10.1111/disa.12614.
(In press).
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Abstract
This paper analyses findings of the 'PROWELLMIGRANTS'2 project, which qualitatively investigated COVID-19 impacts on migrants' well-being and mental health in Kerala, India. It draws on a novel conceptual framework that combines assemblage-thinking with theories of social contracts in disasters. The paper first explores how past development processes and contemporary migration policies in Kerala, and India more widely, generated conditions of vulnerability for migrant workers in Kerala prior to the pandemic. Next it shows that Government of Kerala interventions, in some cases supported by the central Government of India, temporarily addressed these vulnerabilities during the pandemic. In acknowledging the helpful response of the Kerala government, we problematise its stance on migrant workers during 'normal' times and speculate that permanently addressing these conditions of vulnerability would be a more logical approach. We acknowledge this involves overcoming many wider barriers. Thus, the paper also contains national-level policy implications.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Investigating the conditions of vulnerability experienced by migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala, India |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/disa.12614 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12614 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. Disasters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of ODI. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | COVID-19, India, migration, mobilities, vulnerability |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10183471 |
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