Migrant Crisis
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‘Floating coffin’: The UK’s plan to house migrants on a barge is a cruel, new low
Feelings of attachment and belonging are crucial to a person’s wellbeing but migrant housing infrastructure appears to have been designed to be hostile.
Irit Katz, The Conversation
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How seasonal farm migrants to UK got caught in a debt trap
Migrant workers were often duped into paying illegal recruitment fees to local brokers in their home country, often Nepal and Indonesia.
Lin Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation & Chandan Kumar Mandal, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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View from Dawn: With hundreds dead at sea, who is to blame?
At least 300 Pakistanis are among 600 migrants who are likely to have drowned in the Mediterranean when their boat capsized.
Dawn.com
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Will bring back electoral bonds after wider consultations, says Nirmala Sitharaman
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At least 78 dead after boat carrying migrants capsizes near Greece coast
Media reports estimate that there could have been between 400 to 700 people on the boat, most of whom are missing.
Scroll Staff
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Migrants important in building nation: SC tells states and Centre to issue ration cards to them
It is an injustice that the government was relying on the 2011 census to issue ration cards to labourers, the bench said.
Scroll Staff
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Has Belarus unleashed a ‘new type of war’ on EU by creating a migrant crisis on the border?
Yes, says a conflict expert.
Sascha-Dominik (Dov) Bachmann, The Conversation
Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted
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India failed its migrant workers yet again during the second wave of Covid-19
Amid massive job losses, up to a 51% decline in earnings and reduced food intake, labourers struggled through the lockdown in Gujarat.
Shubham Kaushal, IndiaSpend.com & Vikas Kumar, IndiaSpend.com
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Covid lockdown: Over 8,700 people, many of them migrant workers, died along railway tracks in 2020
The Railway Board shared the data on the deaths that occurred between January and December 2020.
Scroll Staff
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One year since lockdown, Surat migrant workers say life has only got harder
Work is scarce, buying food is difficult and many still sleep in the open.
Anhad Imaan
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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Covid: SC orders three states to provide dry ration, transport, set up kitchens for migrants
The bench made the directions on a plea filed by activists Harsh Mander, Anjali Bhardwaj and Jagdeep Chhokar.
Scroll Staff
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Migrant workers have returned to India’s cities – but they are even more vulnerable now
As the job market shrinks, a labour surplus exerts downward pressure on wages and working conditions, making jobs more informal.
Annette Francis & Medha Uniyal
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As Odisha’s workers return to cities, humane shifts and better wages remain a distant dream
Despite migrants making up over 70% of Surat’s workforce, working conditions remain precarious in the city.
Sunaina Kumar, IndiaSpend.com
The Field
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Watch, highlights ISL 2024: Odisha FC through to semi-final after beating Kerala Blasters in playoff
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IPL 2024: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock power Lucknow to comfortable win over Chennai
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time