Investigating the conditions of vulnerability experienced by migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala, India

IF 2.4 3区管理学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Disasters Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI:10.1111/disa.12614

Peter McGowran, Mishal A. Mathews, Hannah Johns, Mary C. Harasym, Emmanuel Raju, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

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Abstract

This paper analyses findings of the ‘PROWELLMIGRANTS’² project, which qualitatively investigated COVID-19 impacts on migrants’ well-being and mental health in Kerala, India. It draws on a novel conceptual framework that combines assemblage-thinking with theories of social contracts in disasters. The paper first explores how past development processes and contemporary migration policies in Kerala, and India more widely, generated conditions of vulnerability for migrant workers in Kerala prior to the pandemic. Next it shows that Government of Kerala interventions, in some cases supported by the central Government of India, temporarily addressed these vulnerabilities during the pandemic. In acknowledging the helpful response of the Kerala government, we problematise its stance on migrant workers during ‘normal’ times and speculate that permanently addressing these conditions of vulnerability would be a more logical approach. We acknowledge this involves overcoming many wider barriers. Thus, the paper also contains national-level policy implications.

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调查印度喀拉拉邦新冠肺炎大流行期间移民工人的脆弱状况。

本文分析了PROWELLIGRANTS项目的研究结果，该项目定性调查了新冠肺炎对印度喀拉拉邦移民福祉和心理健康的影响。它借鉴了一个新颖的概念框架，将集合思维与灾难中的社会契约理论相结合。这篇文章首先探讨了喀拉拉邦以及更广泛的印度过去的发展进程和当代移民政策如何在疫情之前为喀拉拉邦的移民工人创造了脆弱的条件。然后，我们展示了喀拉拉邦政府的干预措施，在某些情况下得到了印度中央政府的支持，在疫情期间暂时解决了这些脆弱性。这些努力应该受到赞扬。然而，在承认喀拉拉邦政府的有益回应时，我们对他们在“正常”时期对移民工人的立场提出了质疑，并推测永久解决这些脆弱状况将是一种更合乎逻辑的方法。我们承认，这涉及到克服许多障碍，这些障碍的根源超出了喀拉拉邦政府的管辖范围。因此，我们的文件也包含了对印度国家层面政策的影响。

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