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Author: Monika Chaudhary, IIHMR University
Migrants are invisible in India. There are 454 million migrants in the country, 60 million of whom are inter-state labour migrants. Yet there is a lack of comprehensive data on migrant workers at the national, regional and global level. Despite contributing 10 per cent of India’s GDP, these workers are socially and politically vulnerable. Basic information on where they work and live, how they are recruited as well as their vulnerabilities to shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic are often completely unknown.
How to protect India’s invisible migrant workers?
29 January 2021
Author: Monika Chaudhary, IIHMR University
Migrants are invisible in India. There are 454 million migrants in the country, 60 million of whom are inter-state labour migrants. Yet there is a lack of comprehensive data on migrant workers at the national, regional and global level. Despite contributing 10 per cent of India’s GDP, these workers are socially and politically vulnerable. Basic information on where they work and live, how they are recruited as well as their vulnerabilities to shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic are often completely unknown.
Migrant workers are generally employed in the informal sector, doing unskilled jobs in textiles, manufacturing, construction, hotel transportation, services or domestic work. Migrants start working at an early age, spending their days at worksites and returning home to perilous shelters in the slums where they share small rooms with 5–6 others. They are political