Studies warn that global warming and sea level rise will create hundreds of millions of
environmental refugees. While climate change will undoubtedly affect future migration …

The paper discusses how gaps in both the data on migration and the understanding of the
role of migration in livelihood strategies and economic growth in India, have led to …

Within neoliberal development discourse, the poor are represented as entrepreneurial
subjects for whom integration into formalized financial systems can facilitate their escape …

The UNDP Human Development Report of 2009 states that there are four times as many
internal migrants in the world as there are international migrants (UNDP 2009, p. 22) …

Evidence for three decades or more indicates that wage inequality has consistently
increased in most labour market segments in India. This paper focuses on how …

In developing countries, labor out-migration has led to millions of married couples living
apart from each other. Male out-migration brings economic benefits to the families in places …

The national lockdown of India announced on March 24th 2020 in response to the COVID-
19 pandemic, left millions of migrant labourers stranded in their destinations. Thrown out of …

The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying policies of confinement or lockdown have
been amply demonstrated and are possibly reinforcing economic, social and gender …

This paper discusses the relationship between labour migration and poverty in India, during
a period of rapidly growing inequalities. This is placed against the on-going debates on …

The crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to calls for 'building back
better'and 'resilient recovery'. In this article, we examine this agenda by asking what this …