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The Long Walk Towards Uncertainty: The Migrant Dilemma in Times of COVID-19

S. Irudaya Rajan, Renjini Rajagopalan and P. Sivakumar  •  The onslaught of COVID-19 thrust upon humanity two major challenges, that of human health and that of the economy; the migrants are mired in both. It has both pushed the world economic order into chaos and challenged even the mightiest of economies. The initial advent of COVID-19

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Re-emerging from a Hiatus: Migrants and Migration in a Post-Pandemic World

In my last editorial as the editor-in-chief of Migration and Development, titled “Migration at a Crossroads: COVID-19 and Challenges to Migration”, I wondered what the world of migration and migration corridors would look like after the world recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic (Rajan, 2020). I was confident that migration as a phenomenon would endure, as

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The Last Straw? Experiences and Future Plans of Returned Migrants in the India-GCC Corridor

In this article, we explore how precise information about migrants’ working conditions in their destination countries impacts their decision to migrate again upon returning home. Using household data from Kerala and Tamil Nadu from 2020–21, we study return emigrants (REM) who returned during the first COVID-19 lockdowns in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Through

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IPaSS: Informality, Inclusive Growth and Food Security in Cities of the Global South

This foundation project of the Hungry Cities Partnership is funded by the SSHRC and IDRC under the International Partnerships for Sustainable Societies Program (IPaSS). The project has facilitated the formation of an initial seven-city research and policy network across the Global South linked to researchers at five Canadian universities. The project has embarked on a

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Rural-Urban Transition and Food Security in India

As a growing proportion of world’s population lives in cities and towns, food security is increasingly acquiring an urban character. The locus of food security research and policy agendas has correspondingly expanded from rural areas to include cities and towns in the past few years. However, the dominant discourse on urbanization-food security relationship appears to

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Food Security at Emerging Urban Spaces in India

An examination of the important public policy issue of contemporary significance of linkages between migration, urbanization and food and nutrition security in India, within the wider context of post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. The paper responds to the call by Crush (2013, p. 62) to bridge the “massive institutional and substantive disconnect” that currently

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