Anuja
Inside Delhi’s Chhath circuits
Not all migrants travel back home to celebrate the biggest festival of Bihar - Chhath. Countless celebrations dot major cities like Delhi...
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Mansi Bhaktwani
2 days ago5 min read
Migrant workers targeted in Kashmir
The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that captures issues related to migration that have been reported on various media...
Ishita Dey and Neetu Singh
Oct 259 min read
Heat and crowded trains: The cost of cool, clean water on a migrant journey
For migrant workers hopping onto long-distance trains, it is the consolation of being home that spurs them to overlook the challenges of...
Nidhi Jamwal
Oct 229 min read
No place to call home
Repeated floods in north Bihar have fuelled migration of men, and displaced their families repeatedly as swelling rivers swallow land...
Esha Roy
Oct 1816 min read
Rural help desks yield bumper crops, increase incomes
Nagarik Sahayta Kendras, a collaboration between civil society organisations and the government, were launched to help villagers get jobs...
Tanmoy Bhaduri
Oct 75 min read
Work and Worship
Hundreds of people migrate from rural West Bengal to Kolkata to meet the spike in demand for labour during its biggest celebration of the...
Mansi Bhaktwani
Oct 45 min read
Cholera outbreak spotlights poor working conditions in Goa's fish sector
The Migration Bulletin is a monthly round-up that captures issues related to migration that have been reported on various media...
Aarefa Johari
Oct 413 min read
Dharavi revamp: A way of life and work to change in Mumbai's migrant hub
In the streets and warehouses of Asia’s largest slum, migrant workers who make up for a large part of the slum’s population, reflect on...
Amoolya Rajappa
Sep 307 min read
Expensive data disconnects migrants
Sharp increases in mobile tariffs are straining the budgets of migrant workers in cities like Bengaluru, making it harder for them to...
Roli Srivastava
Sep 2712 min read
'Jungle is our Life': The Story of a Village Collective
India gives tribal villages rights over forest land and its produce but the laws have been poorly implemented. A union of villages in...
Swara Garge and Prakhar Dobhal
Sep 171 min read
E-rickshaw - Stopped in their tracks
Prakhar Dobhal Swara Garge The Transport Department of the Delhi government is impounding and dismantling unregistered e-rickshaws in the...
Abhijit Mohanty
Sep 1310 min read
In Odisha’s Adivasi areas, farmers fish their way back home
A state-run fish farming scheme in Odisha creates livelihood opportunity in drought-hit villages, brings migrants home Abhijit Mohanty...
The Migration Story
Sep 116 min read
Rising risks and some solutions
The Migration Bulletin is a fortnightly round-up that captures issues related to migration that have been reported on various media...
Sanskriti Talwar
Sep 411 min read
“The machines have taken over our work”
The livelihoods of an estimated 15 lakh farm workers in Punjab – not counting the thousands of migrant labourers in the state - are at...
Compiled by Mansi Bhaktwani
Aug 304 min read
The Migration Bulletin
This fortnightly round-up will capture issues related to migration that have been reported on various media platforms. In its first...
Arshdeep Arshi
Aug 297 min read
'Who will till your land?'
Hostility towards migrant farm workers in Punjab villages raises livelihood and dignity concerns Arshdeep Arshi Migrant workers Sikandar...
Mohammad Aatif Ammad Kanth
Aug 238 min read
Migrant workers head to the Valley to beat the heat
Bedmakers, construction workers and street vendors landed in Kashmir in larger numbers this year as relentless heatwaves swept across...
Anuj Behal
Aug 167 min read
Inside Delhi's Momo Capital
In the heart of Delhi, the welcoming urban village of Chirag Dilli, has given an address to countless migrants from the northeast, who...
Varsha Torgalkar
Aug 96 min read
The invisible victims of Pune’s Porsche crash
Migrant workers in the city’s bars and pubs have become jobless following government action against places serving liquor Varsha...
Prakhar Dobhal, Swara Garge, Jais Jacob
Aug 71 min read
Wayanad: Lost in the Landslide
Video producers: Prakhar Dobhal, Swara Garge Footage: Jais Jacob Wayanad has an estimated 100,000 migrant workers, who were amongst the...
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