Borders of an Epidemic: Covid 19 and Migrant Workers

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A very important 'first impression' volume on COVID-19 and its social contexts.

Author(s): Ranabir Samaddar (editor)
Edition: first
Publisher: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
Year: 2020

Language: English
City: Kolkata

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.Corona Virus and the World-Economy
2.Migrant Labour, Informal Economy, and Logistics Sector in a Covid-19 World
3.The Body in Surveillance
4.Hunger, Humiliation, and Death
5.Insecurity and Fear Travel as Labour Travels in the Time of Pandemic
6.The Return of Bihari Migrants after the COVID-19 Lockdown
7.The Sudden Visibility of Sangram Tudu
8.Glimpses of Life in the Time of Corona
9.Migrant Workers and the Ethics of Care during a Pandemic
10.Social Distancing, “Touch-Me-Not” and the Migrant Worker
11.Bringing the Border Home
12.Nouvelle Corona Virus and Gender Transgressions
13.Epilogue
A Report- How One State can Learn from Aother - Migrant Workers in Kolkata.pdf
List of Contributors
Back Cover