Call for Papers Invited for E-book on COVID-19 & Migrants in India

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Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is a deemed university fully funded by the University Grants Commission, Government of India. TISS offers over 50 Master’s Degree programmes from its Mumbai, Tuljapur, Guwahati and Hyderabad Campuses. Masters’ programmes are offered in a range of socially relevant inter-disciplinary areas.

E-book on COVID-19 & Migrants in India

The COVID-19, it has been argued, has brought to center-stage of migrant discourse fault lines in the Indian society such as class, caste, gender, religion, and ethnicity that tend to magnify in crisis situations.

On the other hand, the failure of the State to stand with and care for its toiling classes, particularly migrants (and also specific sections within migrants) has once again intensified debate how state, democracy, citizenship, market, and right to life and livelihoods mean differently to different groups of people.

However, the gradual but impending impact of the pandemic is likely to bring about far-reaching changes the way politics functions, push for liberalization and privatization is used, urban is reconceptualized and the workers’ organizations go about organizing them.

This e-book will look at myriads of intricate issues – social, economic, and political – linked with migrant workers’ situation during COVID-19 in India and also make an attempt to examine the conditions of migrant workers in the post-lockdown or post-pandemic situation.

Topics

Full papers for this book are welcome on the following (non-exclusive) themes:

• Social dimensions: Social fault lines along caste, class, gender, ethnic and religious lines; ‘social’ distancing; human tragedy; migrants and larger society’s relations; specifically vulnerable migrant communities – Rohingyas, Muslim migrants in Assam, North-eastern migrants in other parts of India, tribals, custodialised communities, destitute, etc.; and religiosity in times of COVID crises.
• Economic dimensions: Short-term and long-term implications for employment and livelihoods of migrants; migrants and economic stimulus package; food security; cash transfer; employment policy; liberalization and privatization; future of work and workplaces.
• Political dimensions: Federal/ unitary polity; State and migrants with respect to their return to natives; State capacity with respect to immediate relief, shelter, feeding, quarantine, differential capacities of states; portability of rights.
• Migrants and urbanization: Housing, rental market, slums, and basic amenities, workplace conditions
• Migrants’ long marches, protests, and resistance: informal sector, labor reforms, social security, Indian migrant laborers in the Gulf and other parts of the world.

Call for Papers

• The prescribed length of the paper is between 4000 and 6000 words including footnotes.
• Shortlisted articles will go through a quick round of external peer reviews.
• Efforts will be made to enter into an agreement with a reputed international publisher for hosting it under open access.
• There will be a strong possibility of publication of revised and enlarged papers at a later conducive stage in print form.
• The last date to submit your papers is June 25, 2020.
• Authors of selected papers will be informed latest by 31st July 2020.
• The book is likely to go online by the end of August 2020.

Interested authors may send their paper to the following e-mail ID: patnacentre@tiss.edu.

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