Problems Faced by the Migrant Labourers during Covid Pandemic Lockdown

Sarbani Maity - University of Kalyani, West Bengal

Last year a lockdown was implemented at the end of March. After the announcement of lockdown, migrant labourers had been forced by their employers to leave their working places. These migrant labourers had been working in different states as daily or casual labour. They had been very badly affected by this lockdown. This article has tried to portray their lockdown experiences. Very specifically through this paper I have been trying to explore their painful experiences on their return journey. I have prepared this paper on the basis of secondary data which have been collected from various sources like-book, newspaper, internet, journal etc. I have used 10 narratives for understanding their experience. From the collected data I have understood that all migrants had been faced with monetary and other essentials related problems during covid-19 lockdown and then transport facility was also unavailable to them and that had created a big problem. On the road they had faced different problems like- road accidents, police harassment, misguiding etc. In this way they had been trying to reach their home during that hard time.


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How to cite this article Maity S.(2021) : Problems Faced by the Migrant Labourers during Covid Pandemic Lockdown. Research Expression 4 : 6 (2021) 69 - 72