This annotated bibliography provides insights into the relief work that Stranded Workers Action Network carried out especially during the second wave of the pandemic. SWAN acted in many capacities, to provide food, rations and other material assistance. It has also generated reports based on migrant worker surveys that assessed these needs across regions where migrant…
Author: SWAN Volunteer
Annotated Bibliography of India’s Vaccination Programme
India began the first phase of its vaccination programme on 16th January, 2021. Frontline workers, i.e. health workers, police, paramilitary forces, sanitation workers, and disaster management volunteers, were the primary targets of this phase. The second phase entailed the widening of the vaccine bracket to now include persons within the age group 45-60 and those…
Bearing Witness to the CoVID 19 Lockdown: Proof Regimes of Migrant Workers
Baees/22 March (the day of the 14 hour ‘voluntary’ lockdown) and Chaubees/24 March (the beginning of the longer nation-wide lockdown) were permanently imprinted in the minds of migrant workers as the hard date after which they could be certain of nothing.
The Long Walk Home
The news on 2nd June that almost 200 migrant workers had been killed in road accidents while walking to their home villages in India was shocking but perhaps unsurprising. The country’s lockdown had sparked the biggest mass exodus since Partition, with millions forced to trudge hundreds of miles in dangerous conditions. Nadia Nooreyezdan charts the impact on some of the world’s most vulnerable people, and asks what their experience tells us about life in Modi’s India.
Labour’s data lost
Isn’t it odd that even a nationally constituted body such as the ILC was not consulted before the passage of codes that are going to affect 90% of the workforce? For the nearly 50 crore ‘informal’ workers in India, the codes come as another cruel joke when the embers of the largest crisis for workers have not died down.
The Wages Of COVID-19 Lockdown In Dharavi – A Sense Of Panic, Loss Of Self
Call to set up common data portal
A Rickshaw Driver’s Story
Arvind lives with his wife and two small children in Delhi. His eldest child is 3 years old, and he and his wife also a three-month-old baby. Before the lockdown, he drove his autorickshaw. With the lockdown, he had no source of money. He called us and was one of our earliest cases marked urgent….