Open AccessReturn Migration: The Second Major Outbreak due to COVID-19 in India
Author(s) -
Shraddha Agarwal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
demis. demographic research
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.19181/demis.2021.1.4.9
Subject(s) - development economics , poverty , pandemic , context (archaeology) , inequality , economic growth , outbreak , covid-19 , china , geography , political science , economics , medicine , mathematical analysis , mathematics , disease , archaeology , pathology , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
COVID-19 pandemic made a severe impact on the developing countries. According to the “World Economic Situation and Prospects” report by the United Nations, as of mid-2021, this global crisis has clearly worsened poverty and within-country inequality, and it is expected that it will leave long-lasting scars on labor markets while reversing progress on poverty and income inequality in many economies. The context in India, in this sense, is complex. The article corresponds to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on internal migration. The rapid spread of the pandemic shook nations across the world, bringing about a broad lockdown that cinched down on versatility, business exercises, and social communications. In India, the pandemic encouraged an extreme emergency of portability, with transient workers in many significant urban areas looking to get back to the places where they were initially from. Their frantic attempts to get back using any and all means accessible delivered the lockdown incapable in a few regions, provoking conflicts with authorities, last-minute approaches, alleviation, and, in the end, unplanned transport measures. This paper expects to reveal insight into the weakness of India's internal migrants as far as their gender, mobility, and emotional wellbeing. As COVID-19 was India’s first significant outbreak in 2020, the “reverse migration” proves to be the second major outbreak.