Tara Nair
Biographic Data
| ID | 5671590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tara Nair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tara |
| FAMILY NAME | Nair |
| SIGNATURE | NAIR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Work Fair and Free Foundation, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4840-9812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Building a multifaceted and ground-up response system for internal migration
This paper discusses the migrant labour support architecture established by Aajeevika Bureau, an NGO established in 2005 in the dominant labour-exporting region of the western Indian state of Rajasthan. The multipronged institutional response crafted by the organisation to address the phenomenon of internal migration has been broadly fashioned as a model of social protection. This paper presents the approach and activities of Aajeevika Bureau in …
Migrant Workers in the Cityscape
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the contested and contradictory relationship that India’s migrant workers share with the cities where they carry out their productive and reproductive activities. This paper focuses on the issue of migrant housing as an extreme site of exclusion that works not only as shelter poverty but also as a structural mechanism that perpetuates social, economic and political marginalisation of a vulnerable workforce. It demo…
Industrial Fragmentation, Migration and Live-in Factories in Ahmedabad
This article interrogates live-in factory labour as a distinct feature of informalised industrial structure, an absence of state regulation and an outcome of kinship-based internal migration processes and labour precariousness. It also demonstrates the fallacy of analysing living arrangements of migrant workers as undifferentiated structural artefacts and highlights the underlying social relational dynamics. It argues that suboptimal wages and te…
Trapped in a gulf of hope and despair
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Industrial Fragmentation, Migration and Live-in Factories in Ahmedabad
This article interrogates live-in factory labour as a distinct feature of informalised industrial structure, an absence of state regulation and an outcome of kinship-based internal migration processes and labour precariousness. It also demonstrates the fallacy of analysing living arrangements of migrant workers as undifferentiated structural artefacts and highlights the underlying social relational dynamics. It argues that suboptimal wages and te…
Trapped in a gulf of hope and despair
Building a multifaceted and ground-up response system for internal migration
This paper discusses the migrant labour support architecture established by Aajeevika Bureau, an NGO established in 2005 in the dominant labour-exporting region of the western Indian state of Rajasthan. The multipronged institutional response crafted by the organisation to address the phenomenon of internal migration has been broadly fashioned as a model of social protection. This paper presents the approach and activities of Aajeevika Bureau in …
Migrant Workers in the Cityscape
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the contested and contradictory relationship that India’s migrant workers share with the cities where they carry out their productive and reproductive activities. This paper focuses on the issue of migrant housing as an extreme site of exclusion that works not only as shelter poverty but also as a structural mechanism that perpetuates social, economic and political marginalisation of a vulnerable workforce. It demo…
South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works) · Biology (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Cartography (1 works) · Cityscape (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (1 works) · Falling (accident (1 works) · Fishery (1 works) · Fragmentation (computing (1 works)