No country for migrant workers
Mohammad Osman Goni, a migrant worker, shuttered his tiny green grocery shop in Malaysia and flew home to Bangladesh, a day before the Southeast Asian nation locked itself down on…
Kashmir’s Migrant Workers Face yet Another Lockdown at the Start of a Work Season
Lockdowns are not a new phenomenon in the Kashmir Valley. Over the course of 12 years, Karimullah* and his sixteen co-workers have been visiting Kashmir in the erstwhile state of…
MIGRANT WORKERS FEAR FOR THEIR FUTURE IN THE GULF
Hassan is a migrant worker from Bangladesh currently working and living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He shares a one-bedroom flat with 11 people, all under quarantine after one of his…
Questions to be addressed to Saji Narayann, BMS President
How do you think the lockdown has impacted migrant worker’s lives?Is he aware of the actual number of the migrant workers stuck in different states because of the lockdown?Has the…
Why isn’t there a Vande Bharat mission for India’s migrant workers to get home?
On March 31, the Centre informed the Supreme Court that there were no transient workers on the streets given the measures governments had embraced to house and feed them in…
Indian capitalism’s hour of disgrace- Well deserved labour shortage
The Indian public discourse around migrant labour largely ignores the main reason why the labourers have been so desperate to go back home: their employers stopped paying them wages. One…
Migrant workers fiasco will cost India
The battle against the corona virus pandemic appears to have denied us of our humankind. The tragic horrible occurrence of 16 migrants being cut down under a goods train in…
‘No coordination among departments, migrant workers are suffering the most’- Gujarat HC
The Gujarat High Court on Monday took note of news reports highlighting the difficulties faced by migrant workers and as well as “underprivileged and weaker sections of the society that…
As lakhs of migrant workers try to go home, Indian states spar over logistics
As Assam's Covid-19 cases rise, the state government focuses a finger at Rajasthan. The spat began after May 6, when a transport pressed with 43 travellers came back from Rajasthan's…
In Tamil Nadu, migrant workers can’t go back home
Two days prior, the Karnataka government, after a gathering with prominent builders, reported that it would not encourage the movement of migrant workers back home because their work was expected…