COVID-19 and the Distress Reverse Migration in India: A Gendered Perspective
School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi The heart-wrenching images of the migrant workers walking back to their native places because of the COVID crisis, actually, reflects a larger problem that India has been facing for a long time. The COVID-19 just triggered the explosion of a simmering crisis. Despite the popular perception about the unbiased nature of the Coronavirus that treats every individual equally irrespective of social, religious and caste barriers, the preventive measures like social distancing, hygienic surroundings, and nutrition levels has a strong class factor. The ones, who belong to the lower hierarchy in this system, live in crowded settlements with bare minimum hygiene, are most exposed to the virus. It is also this section of the people who migrate out
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