The Special Issue is the outcome of the First International Conference on “Care for Older Adults Amidst COVID-19” organized by The International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD), Trivandrum, Kerala, India held during 19-20 December 2022. From the Conference, the articles addressing the issues and challenges in the elderly care viz., physical, mental, socio-economic aspects, and with the care givers’ problems have been considered.
This special issue identifies the status of care and support issues, challenges of the elderly and the trends in the elderly care in the pandemic and the post pandemic period. It broadly contributes to the elderly care issues to the existing literature into five broad areas: physical health care and elder issues, psychological health care and elder issues, elderly issues relevant to employment, migration and the left behind elderly care issues and finally trends in elderly health care.
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Important Dates:
• Manuscript submission deadline: 31 December 2024
• Publication date: April 2025
Abstract
This article explores numerous socio-economic facets of internal migrants from West Bengal, including their subjective conceptions of their social standing and social class, and analyses how these facets are intimately tied to growth in Kerala. In Kerala, a sizeable portion of internal migrants come from North India. With approximately 2.5 million internal migrants in 2013 and a population growth of 235,000 annually, Kerala is a preferred destination state for migrant labourers in India. Migrant workers from outside have grown to be a significant and essential component of the Kerala economy as a result of the state’s demographic shifts and high rates of educated unemployment, which has led to a severe labour shortage for low-wage frontline jobs. Due to the extreme labour scarcity, the state’s unorganised industries are seeing exceptionally high pay rates. Most migrants come from impoverished and marginalised communities and are employed in the state’s unorganised sector. These migrants frequently find themselves on the periphery of society despite being essential to the economy. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led to job losses worsening the situation for migrant workers. The article examines the position of migrants in West Bengal, the source state, and Kerala, the destination state. Further, the article explores the governance of labour migration within the context of migration policies adopted in Kerala and examines how the term ‘guest workers’, which is used to describe internal migrants, can be seen as a distinct, complicated social dynamic in and of itself.
ABSTRACT
Academic interest for the scholarship on return migration has received new vigour owing in part to the massive return migration waves observed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This special issue consolidates studies conducted in the aftermath of COVID-19 that study return migration experiences from South and Southeast Asia. These studies harness primary as well as secondary data in order to document what happened to migrants as a result of lockdowns and related measures of immobility, the flow of migrants when borders reopened, and the condition since return to their countries of origin. Despite the fact that we draw from the context of the pandemic-induced return migration phenomena, the insights generated by our special issue are important for the scholarship of return migration at large.
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