A Culture-Centered Approach to Experiences of the Coronavirus Pandemic Lockdown Among Internal Migrants in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5089800 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Devalina Mookerjee (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, corresponding author), Sujoy Chakravarty (0000-0002-1321-4222, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), Shubhabrata Roy (0000-0002-6438-6438, Behavioural Insights, Architecture, and Strategy (BIAS), New Delhi, India), Anirudh Tagat (0000-0002-7707-453X, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, India), Shagata Mukherjee (0000-0003-0067-8690, Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics, Mumbai, India) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1426-1444 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642211000392 |
| PMID | 38603078 |
| OpenAlex | W3138551498 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 22 |
India's coronavirus lockdown forced low-wage migrant workers to return from the city to the home towns and villages from which they came. Pre-pandemic living and working conditions were already stressful and difficult for these migrants. The lockdown became an additional burden, since it shut down sources of income with no assurance about when, or if, work and earning to support families could be resumed. This article draws on the lens of the Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) to understand how workers engaged with and navigated these difficult times. A total of 54 migrant workers locked-down at home across the Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal were interviewed for this qualitative study. Financial worries were found to be endemic, with rising debt a major source of stress, and educational qualifications becoming an obstacle to earning. Returning migrants were suspected of bringing the virus from the city, and so stigmatized in their home towns and villages. However, the pandemic lockdown also showed some unexpected healthful consequences. It provided these marginalized, and always busy workers the time and space to stop working for a while, to stay home, eat home food, and take walks in the comparatively green and clean spaces of their home environments. In this, the pandemic lockdown may be seen to have enabled a measure of agency and health in the lives of these workers, an oasis albeit temporary, and ultimately subject to the demands of the globalized cities of India
Agency (philosophy) · Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Migrant workers · Pandemic · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Work (physics) · COVID-19 and Mental Health · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Medicine
A typology of the sources of mental health precarity among migrant workers in India during the Covid-19 lockdown
Painting Murals to Define a “Successful Childhood”
‘We will rise no matter what’
Mobility, stress, and coping strategy
Route to prospects or distress
The Migrant as an Aspirational Actor
Breaking Down Silos and Building Partnerships at the Grassroots Level
Internal Migration and Development in India
Communicating Social Change
Migrant Workers and Their Occupational Health and Safety
Occupational health outcomes among international migrant workers
The Psychobiology of Stress
Life Event Checklists
Global output of research on the health of international migrant workers from 2000 to 2017
The Covid-19, Migration and Livelihood in India
Migration and Health in the Construction Industry
Negotiating the (im)mobility of domestic work
Covid ‐19 lockdown and penalty of joblessness on income and remittances
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |