This book, with articles by leading experts and researchers, explores the ongoing concerns of labour migration in India in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It studies various aspects such as: • impact of COVID-19 pandemic on rural migrants; • gender implications of agrarian change and labour migration in out-migrating states; • geography of out-migrant husbands of women left behind home; • processes of international labour out-migration and remittances; • occupational mobility of migrants; • social exclusion, discrimination and identity crisis of migrants in urban slums; • vulnerability of low-skilled migrants at the urban destinations and the implications of short-term economic shocks like demonetization and COVID-led lockdown • and sociological implications of development, distress and youth migration in India.

Drawing on integrative frameworks that combine primary research and secondary sources from a variety of disciplines, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of demography, economics, development studies, public policy, sociology and geography.