Media, Migrants and the Pandemic in India

1. This book show-cases and contextualises representative writing in popular Indian media by journalists, academics, lawyers and social activists on the massive yet desperate defiance of the migrant workers to the sudden lockdown shutting all economic activities and creating panic.
2. It nudges the reader toward a better and more complex understanding of how the migrant crisis panned out and how it was addressed by the media in discussing its impact, the government’s policy response and the role of the judiciary.
3. It will be of interest to departments of Media studies, journalism, sociology, law, public policy, labour and economics, welfare economics, gender studies, and development studies across the UK/US.