Capitalist agriculture and the creation of the circular migrant: Understanding COVID-19’s impact on internal migrants in India
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: COVID-19 has affected the internal migrants in India badly. When the government announced a lockdown with a 4-hour notice, millions of these migrants, who were a part of the vast unorganized labor force to be found in urban areas, were left stranded. In our article, we analyze the structural factors that underpin this crisis. We argue that the migrant crisis that unfolded in the urban areas has its roots in India’s embrace of globalization, the rise of capitalistic agriculture, and the increasing casualization of labor work in the urban labor markets.
Source: Human Geography
Authors: Sandeep Kandikuppa, Pallavi Gupta
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Topic: Migration and Labor Dynamics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3091483530