1st Edition

India Migration Report 2021 Migrants and Health

Edited By S. Irudaya Rajan Copyright 2022
354 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

354 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

354 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

India Migration Report 2021 presents a detailed study on the health of migrants. It highlights major healthcare challenges faced by migrant labourers, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced authorities, policymakers and many other stakeholders to turn their attention to healthcare delivery unlike ever before. Bringing to the fore the health status of the migrant... Read more

1 Migration and health: Charting questions for future research

DIVYA RAVINDRANATH AND PAVITRA MOHAN

 

2 Internal migrants’ health in India: The need for inclusive policies and implementation

YADLAPALLI S. KUSUMA AND BONTHA V. BABU

 

3 Rethinking health of migrant workers

ANJALI BORHADE

 

4 Gender and the migrant experience of seeking healthcare: an exploration using narrative analysis

MALA RAMANATHAN, SUNU C. THOMAS AND TIJO GEORGE

 

5 Migrants and health: a study of low-income migrants in Punjab and Assam

RADHIKA CHOPRA, JEEVAN R. SHARMA AND ANUJ KAPILASHRAMI

 

6 Return migrants and the first wave of COVID-19: results from the Vande Bharat returnees in Kerala

S. IRUDAYA RAJAN AND POOJA BATRA

 

7 Primary healthcare for labour migrants: The need for an inclusive policy

BONTHA V. BABU, YOGITA SHARMA AND YADLAPALLI S. KUSUMA

 

8 Broken bricks: health status of the seasonal migrant workers

BIJAYA DEWASHI

 

9 Burden of occupational morbidities among migrant auto-rickshaw drivers

SOUMI MUKHERJEE AND K. C. DAS

 

10 Prevalence of potentially malignant oral disorders among

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TIJO GEORGE AND P RAVI PRASAD VARMA

 

11 Assessment of mental health disorders among migrant Brick Kiln workers of western Odisha

BIBHISHANA BHUYAN AND K. C. DAS

 

12 Building better migrant worker-health system interfaces: noteworthy interventions from local self-government institutions in Kerala

SOUMYA GOPAKUMAR, C S DIVYA, ARUNA S VENU AND P RAVI PRASAD VARMA

 

13 COVID-19 pandemic and interstate migrants: documenting the response of health system and civil society

SAPNA MISHRA, MALU MOHAN AND RAKHAL GAITONDE

 

14 What next for the COVID-19 return emigrants? findings from the Kerala return emigrant survey 2021

S. IRUDAYA RAJAN AND BALASUBRAMANYAM PATTATH

 

15 Food security and psychological distress of migrants during COVID-19 lockdown

SHIVAKUMAR JOLAD AND SHALAKA SHARAD SHAH

 

16 Livelihood, employment and health of migrant workers in the context of COVID-19 pandemic

LEKHA D. BHAT, KESAVAN RAJASEKHARAN NAYAR, SOBIN GEORGE, ARATHI P. RAO, JINBERT LORDSON, NAOREM ARUNIBALA DEVI, SHABANA ROZE CHOWDHURY, MUHAMMED SHAFFI, BINDYA VIJAYAN AND N. PRAJWAL

 

17 An exploratory analysis of gender attitudes in Tamil Nadu: new evidence from Tamil Nadu migration survey

GINU ZACHARIA OOMMEN, S. IRUDAYA RAJAN, GEORGE JOSEPH, SYED USMAN JAVAID, JENNIFER SOLOTAROFF AND LUIS ALBERTO ANDRES

 

18 Migrants and their livelihoods in the urban informal sector

S. S. SRIPRIYA

 

19 Nexus of social remittances and social change: an ethnographic study of impact of Gulf migration on linguistic pattern of migrants in Uttar Pradesh

MOHAMMED TAUKEER

 

20 International migration of indentured labour from Northern India, 1881–1911

HIMMAT SINGH RATNOO AND PRADIPTA CHAUDHURY             

Biography

S. Irudaya Rajan is Chairman of the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD), India, and chair of the KNOMAD (the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development) thematic working group on internal migration and urbanization, World Bank. Earlier, he was Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, and Chair, Research Unit on International Migration (RUIM), funded by the erstwhile Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Government of India (2006-2016). Dr Rajan is the Founding Editor in Chief of Migration and Development (Taylor and Francis), Refugee Survey Quarterly (Editorial Board member) and the editor of two Routledge series – India Migration Report and South Asia Migration Report. He has published extensively in national and international journals on demographic, social, economic, political and psychological implications of international migration. He has also coordinated eight major large-scale migration surveys in Kerala since 1998 (with K. C. Zachariah), Goa (2008), Punjab (2009), Tamil Nadu (2015) and instrumental for Gujarat (2011).