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PSYCHO-SOCIAL AND HEALTH RELATED ISSUES FACED BY LABOR MIGRANTS IN KERALA DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC Sreena A1 & Prof. M. N. Mohamedunni Alias Musthafa2, Ph. D. 1
Department of Education, Central University of Kerala.
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Department of Education, Central University of Kerala.
Paper Received On: 25 NOV 2022 Peer Reviewed On: 30 NOV 2022 Published On: 1 DEC 2022
Abstract The life of migrant workers in a host state has been a serious issue all the time. This paper tries to identify different psycho-social and health related issues faced by labour migrants in Kerala and how does these issues become vulnerable during pandemic. For this, the researcher’s learnings from empirics have been well utilized to evolve the concept and arrive at conclusion. Self-observation of the various psychosocial and health related issues faced by migrant workers in pandemic period supported by document analysis from data derived from articles, journals and news reports has been used for a comprehensive analysis. The most significant findings are the psycho-social issues, which include a high level of anxiety, tension, and dread as a result of disease-related worries. But to certain extent Kerala was the only one Indian state which could provide maximum support for migrant workers to overcome the effect of Covid- 19. But there are negative impacts reflected while implementing the supportive measures to these interstate migrants because of the lack of national level inclusion. A reflective learning from this analysis is that a comprehensive legislative framework is required to accommodate the diverse health and welfare demands of interstate migrant workers. Keywords: Psycho-Social issue, Health issues, Labour migrants, Covid-19 Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com
Introduction Migration, both international and interstate has been a serious issue and concern to the different states and central governments in Indian socio-political landscape. The migrants and specifically migrant workers resides equally both at urban and rural areas. In India, migrant workers beyond state lines face a variety of issues. Indian social economic and political landscape has been interestingly entwined with these issues which often forms even the basis Copyright © 2022, Scholarly Research Journal for Humanity Science & English Language