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Crushed fingers, delayed aid: Invisible injuries in India’s auto sector
More than 7,000 auto-sector workers have suffered severe workplace injuries since 2016, mostly in the supply chains of India’s top...

Sanskriti Talwar
Jul 3013 min read


Freedom’s Price: Queer Life in Indian Cities
Urban centres offer anonymity and community, yet migrants grapple with high costs, job precarity, discrimination, and isolation. Chapal...

Chapal Mehra
Jul 286 min read


Kannada gottu: Belonging in Bengaluru
Speaking the local language is a safety net for migrant workers in a linguistically-charged metropolis, but learning it in a classroom is...

Maitreyee Boruah
Jul 249 min read


No voice for migrants in Mumbai’s language debate
India’s financial capital has been a migrant magnet for decades and despite rising political tensions around the language ‘outsiders’...

Hepzi Anthony
Jul 249 min read


Telangana worker’s dead body brought home amid Israel-Iran ceasefire
Mansi Bhaktwani The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that compiles news and developments pertaining to India’s migrant workforce....

Mansi Bhaktwani
Jul 235 min read


Missing the SIR Memo
The election commission has issued front-page ads in newspapers and also put out social media posts on the ongoing SIR, but many workers...

Anuja
Jul 2310 min read


The cost of staying on the list
Migrant workers from Bihar are spending weeks' wages and sacrificing festival visits to ensure their names remain on the electoral rolls...

Umesh Kumar Ray
Jul 1810 min read


Hanging by a thread: Nimisha Priya’s case spotlights plight of Indian migrants jailed overseas
Over 10,000 Indians are currently in foreign prisons, over 60% of them in Gulf countries. India has helplines and welfare funds but...

Rejimon Kuttappan
Jul 176 min read


The burden of summer in Asia’s largest wholesale market
Many felt that Delhi’s heatwave this year was not so intense but the workers in the wholesale vegetable and fruit market - Azadpur Mandi...

Sanskriti Talwar
Jul 1110 min read


‘We are very much Indian citizens’
Bengali-speaking migrants, mostly Muslims, were rounded up by the Mumbai police, flown cross-country and forced into Bangladesh – even...

Neha Banka
Jul 912 min read


How recurring floods fuel migration in Assam
Indigenous communities like the Misings, living near the river banks for centuries, are particularly vulnerable. Sanskrita Bharadwaj...

Sanskrita Bharadwaj
Jul 77 min read


Flooding Memories
For Assamese migrants in Bengaluru, trauma caused by floods is an annual ritual. Maitreyee Boruah Koyes Ahmed Laskar from Assam's...

Maitreyee Boruah
Jul 79 min read


‘Our kitchens are never empty’: Sun-dried vegetables save the dry days in Banswara
Aishwarya Mohanty From right to left: Kamala Kanhaiyalal, Badhu Narji, Kanku Laxman, and Ramila Ninama sit with their collection of...

Aishwarya Mohanty
Jun 307 min read


Displaced and disregarded: The plight of Assam’s erosion victims
River erosion in Assam renders tens of thousands landless every year. Rehabilitation is a solution, but the state’s promises and policies...

Mahmodul Hassan
Jun 277 min read


Boom or Burden? Landour’s Tourist Rush Tests the Limits of a Hill Town
Surging tourism brings income and migrants — but also crowds, traffic, and climate strain — prompting new restrictions in a town...

Sapna Gopal
Jun 239 min read


Chennai Corporation launches AC lounges for gig workers
The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that compiles news and developments pertaining to India’s migrant workforce from across...

Mansi Bhaktwani
Jun 235 min read


The vanishing mulberry trees of Kashmir
The gradual disappearance of these trees, a part of the union territory’s heritage, has impacted the sericulture trade and led to...

Khursheed Ahmad Shah
Jun 1810 min read


Pedalling through heatwaves in India’s bicycle capital
Scorching heat in Ludhiana grips migrant workers walking, cycling or taking buses to work – and even an early morning ride is a losing...

Anuj Behal
Jun 1613 min read


In furnace-like factories, the struggle for water and wage
Workers in spinning mills suffer from headaches, dehydration, infections and worse due to intense heat, poor ventilation and a lack of...

Laasya Shekhar
Jun 311 min read


Roadside mechanics seek skills to shift gears to EV
As India incentivises electric vehicles to cut emissions, auto repair workers face uncertainty, with many at risk of being left behind in...

Mansi Bhaktwani
May 297 min read

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