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Embodiment in Social Accounts of Indian Migrant Workers’ Experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic 印度农民工抗疫经历在社会账户中的体现

Journal of Migration Affairs Pub Date : 2021-03-03 DOI: 10.36931/jma.2021.3.2.1-19

Samhita Das

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Walking on the Margins of the National Imagination: Migrant Workers Amid Covid-19 行走在国家想象的边缘:新冠疫情中的农民工

Journal of Migration Affairs Pub Date : 2021-03-03 DOI: 10.36931/jma.2021.3.2.38-51

Devika Mittal, N. Khan

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An Overview of Out-Migration from Uttar Pradesh Using Census 2011 基于2011年人口普查的北方邦外迁概况

Journal of Migration Affairs Pub Date : 2020-03-04 DOI: 10.36931/jma.2020.2.2.58-66

Pinak Sarkar

引用次数: 4

Women Workers on the Move in South Asia: Shifting Identities in Segmented Labour Markets 南亚流动的女工:在分割的劳动力市场中身份的转变

Journal of Migration Affairs Pub Date : 2020-03-03 DOI: 10.36931/jma.2020.2.2.3-21

A. Chakraborty

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Women, Migration and Labour Exploitation: Challenging Frameworks 妇女、移徙和劳动剥削:具有挑战性的框架

Journal of Migration Affairs Pub Date : 2020-03-02 DOI: 10.36931/jma.2020.2.2.22-36

B. Pattadath, Roshni Chattopadhyay, Meena Gopal, L. Arocha

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Understanding Life Work of Migrant Industrial Workers in Contemporary City of Global South: Bridging Urban Development with Precarity in Labour Market 当代全球南方城市流动产业工人的生活工作理解:连接城市发展与劳动力市场的不稳定性

Journal of Migration Affairs Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.36931/jma.2019.2.1.91-112

Tanya Chaudhary

引用次数: 1

Encountering Gendered Spaces in Climate Change Policy in India: Migration and Adaptation 印度气候变化政策中的性别空间:移民与适应

Journal of Migration Affairs Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.36931/jma.2019.2.1.1-24

A. Hans, S. Hazra, Shouvik Das, Amrita M. Patel

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Thinking of Migration through Caste: Reading Oral Narratives of 'Displaced Person(s)' from East Pakistan (1950-1970) 通过种姓思考移民:阅读东巴基斯坦“流离失所者”的口述(1950-1970)

Journal of Migration Affairs Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.36931/jma.2019.2.1.113-131

Sumallya Mukhopadhyay

引用次数: 3

Out-Migration from Bihar: Major Reasons and Destinations 比哈尔邦外迁:主要原因和目的地

Journal of Migration Affairs Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.36931/jma.2019.2.1.132-140

Pinak Sarkar

引用次数: 2

Labour Migration in the Tea Plantations: Colonial and Neo-Liberal Trajectories of Plantation Labour in the Dooars Tea Belt of West Bengal 茶园中的劳动力迁移:西孟加拉邦杜尔斯茶带种植园劳动力的殖民与新自由主义轨迹

Journal of Migration Affairs Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.36931/jma.2019.2.1.25-43

Swatahsiddha Sarkar

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