Fickle weather destroying farmlands and eroding livelihoods fuel rural to urban migration but some rural communities are finding ways to adapt. Faraz Rupani Pavan Khadse File picture Recent estimates from the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) suggest that over   400 million  (EAC-PM, 2024) people in India have migrated internally, from both rural and urban areas. While the report does not provide a rural-urban split, the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PL

Violence in Manipur has forced thousands to flee their homes. More than two years later, families continue to live in relief camps with the uncertainty of what the future holds, the struggle for daily-wage work and the emotional toll of living without a home Shanti Salam

From unpaid care work to the lowest-paid factory jobs, labour of migrant women is unacknowledged. With the home becoming an extension of work, over time this bodily overuse leads to the inability to work, produce, care, or even sustain itself Ambuja Raj Chulha or earthen hearths in Perumbavoor where women cook food. The fire is fed with spare wood from the plywood factories. Pic credit: Ambuja Raj Look inside, what we live inside is barely even a room. You really think cleani

South Asians form a bulk of Saudi Arabia's low-wage workforce and any news around the country's labour norms are tracked keenly, including the recent fake news around the employer-tied visa sponsorship of workers . Namrata Raju

The migration of women from coastal Odisha to other states over the years reflects the thousands of livelihoods lost to cyclones, floods, and sea erosion. The women who migrate for work risk everything --- they travel far from their community, uprooting themselves from their culture, language and families. Will Odisha government’s newly launched mobile migrant resource centre be able to arrest distress migration? Shobha Surin Nolia Nuagaon, a fishing village in Ganjam distric

Cases fuelled by cramped, unsanitary living conditions in factory-provided accommodations, and also visits to villages, say campaigners and doctors. Migrants seek Hindi-language medical camps. Prasanth Shanmugasundaram A stretch of asbestos-roofed coir factory migrant labour shelters near Kinathukadavu area in Coimbatore district. Prasanth Shanmugasundaram/The Migration Story. COIMBATORE, Tamil Nadu:  Arjun migrated from Bhaisamau village near Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, five yea

The government’s skill development schemes encouraged youth in Raichur to migrate to cities for ‘better jobs’, but they only found low-paid work in urban areas and have been returning to their villages ? Vishaka V. Warrier Supriya RoyChowdhury An industrial skills training centre for rural youth in Muranpur village, Raichur district, Karnataka. Vishaka V. Warrier/The Migration Story i “I was really excited about working in Bangalore. I went there to attend a sales managemen

At a Mumbai convening, campaigners speak about the many welfare schemes available for migrants that exist mostly on paper, as accessing them is extremely difficult due to lack of awareness and cumbersome documentation. Hepzi Anthony