Analysis and Insights

The Long Road Home: India's migrant workers fall through the cracks of the coronavirus crisis

ALASDAIR PAL and DANISH SIDDIQUI

https://www.reuters.com/

2020

Journal Article

Infrastructure

As the government locks down the country to slow the epidemic, thousands of day laborers have left the cities for the villages where they were born, in one of the biggest mass movements of people in the country since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. But what awaits them at the end of their journeys to places that can no longer sustain them?