‘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

· Jul 29, 2023 · 07:30 pm

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

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Chandan Kumar Mandal, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Jul 26, 2023 · 11:30 pm

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

· Jun 21, 2023 · 07:30 pm

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

· Jun 14, 2023 · 08:15 pm

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

· Jul 22, 2022 · 02:14 pm

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

· Nov 18, 2021 · 09:30 pm

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

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Vikas Kumar, IndiaSpend.com

· Jun 26, 2021 · 01:30 pm

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

· Jun 03, 2021 · 10:04 am

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

· May 31, 2021 · 11:30 am

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

· May 13, 2021 · 04:49 pm

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

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Medha Uniyal

· Jan 02, 2021 · 06:30 am

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

· Nov 17, 2020 · 07:30 pm