Labour Migrants During the Pandemic: A Comparative Perspective

Haan, Arjan de

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“…Amid such an inescapable hegemony of the market‐driven economic paradigm, the pandemic and the changing socio‐economic realities across the globe put this nexus between globalization, gender and migration at a crossroad (Kabeer et al., 2021 ). In the immediate aftermath of the COVID‐19 pandemic, a myriad of inequalities and discrepancies at every stage of migration appears to resurface (de Haan, 2020 ). What we see is a significant crisis of globalization, and to grasp a holistic overview of the plights of women migrants, it is imperative to focus on how a section of the society, despite actively contributing to the promises of globalization, is alienated and crushed by its distributional dynamics (Phillips, 2017; Suhardiman et al., 2021 ).…”

Section: Globalization and The Feminization Of International Migrationmentioning

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Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration

Ansar

2022

Global Networks

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has triggered unprecedented societal disruption and disproportionately affected global mobility dynamics. Within such a troubled and intensifying crisis, the intersection of migration and gender is even more unsettling. Since the pandemic outbreak, Bangladesh witnessed a colossal crisis among millions of Bangladeshi migrants working overseas—a considerable section of them are women. By highlighting the plight of the Bangladeshi women migrants in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, this study expands the emerging literature that addresses the nexus among migration, pandemic fallout and gendered labour. Redrawing our understanding of globalization from below, the study attempts to further advance the theoretical perspectives on the predicaments of globalization and gendered precarity in contract labour migration. The study argues that the focus on the power asymmetry between the host and sending countries remains too limited to provide a comprehensive understanding of how inequalities are reproduced and transformed. Instead, it suggests that the challenges and disadvantages women migrants endure are embedded in the asymmetries of deep‐rooted economic and social structures in tandem with the systemic practice of otherness and exclusion.

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Section: Globalization and The Feminization Of International Migrationmentioning

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Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration

Ansar

2022

Global Networks

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“…The pandemic provided a key momentum for digitalization, but also deeply affected international mobility through closing borders, limiting short‐term and circular migration, introducing migration restrictions and potentially increasing anti‐immigrant attitudes (de Haan, 2020 ; Gamlen, 2020 ). In the sphere of labour, the pandemic led to the growing frequency of remote work (Rymaniak et al, 2021 ).…”

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Pandemic transformations in migrant spaces: Migrant entrepreneurship between super‐digitalization and the new precarity

Andrejuk

2022

Population Space and Place

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The Covid‐19 pandemic has brought about new patterns in labour market activities, including greater frequency, intensity and sectoral diversification of technology‐mediated online work (super‐digitalization). The development of online professional activities, accelerated by the pandemic, has a profound influence on migrant entrepreneurship in many dimensions. While the phenomenon also concerns the native population and is not limited to foreigners, in the case of migrant entrepreneurs it has additional unique meanings and consequences, resulting from a greater significance of mobility for migrants and its restriction during the pandemic. The analysis discusses new phenomena, such as the emergence of pandemic digital nomads and the development of migrant business ventures characterized by a de‐ethnicized approach to customers. The theoretical framework for this analysis is the concept of super‐digitalization of professional activities as a privilege. Digitalization is not available to everyone, but it affects everyone; it also has consequences for offline migrant entrepreneurs by creating and enhancing new mechanisms of exclusion. The article emphasizes the difference between super‐digitalization and digitalization, which result in different outcomes for migrant entrepreneurs. The analysis is based on in‐depth interviews with 53 Polish migrant entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom.

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“…This homecoming became bittersweet for migrants (Sengupta 2020). They were labeled as "carriers of the virus" and stigmatized in their homes and the village, which caused many socio-economic vulnerabilities such as anxiety, unemployment, discrimination, and associated violence (Rajan et al 2020;Pande 2020;de Haan 2020). Thus, the present study examines the socioeconomic vulnerabilities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic among returnee internal labor migrants in India.…”

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“…Governments of all countries have implemented different measures since the beginning of the pandemic. One of the strongest measures has been the need for physical isolation and distancing, suspension of non-essential activities -all intending to curb the spread of the virus among inhabitants and its spread in their territories (Rajan et al 2020, de Haan, 2020.…”

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Vulnerabilities of Internal Returnee Migrants in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

Acharya

Patel

2021

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The study surveyed 227 returned labor migrants in four districts of western Odisha to comprehensively analyze the socio-economic vulnerabilities faced by internal returnee labor migrants caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The results show that the partial and complete lockdown caused factory and workplace closures in the entire country. Consequently, millions of migrants suffered a loss of income and faced an uncertain future which motivated migrant workers to return to their home villages. Upon arrival, they met socio-economic vulnerabilities, encountered social and economic discrimination, and were excluded by their family members and fellow villagers, which impacted their behavioral health.

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Labour Migrants During the Pandemic: A Comparative Perspective

Cited by 23 publications

References 20 publications

Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration

Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration

Pandemic transformations in migrant spaces: Migrant entrepreneurship between super‐digitalization and the new precarity

Vulnerabilities of Internal Returnee Migrants in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

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