Migrants labourers have actually been amongst the worst hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic A lot of Indian migrants in the GCC nations are at the bottom of the pyramid in their host countries. Infected in large numbers, and with minimal access to health care, that is a humanitarian crisis that is establishing.
S. Irudaya Rajan is Teacher at the Centre of Advancement Research Studies (CDS) Thiruvananthapuram and Member of the Kerala Govt. Expert Committee on COVID-19 Ginu Zacharaia Oommen is a Member of the Kerala Civil Service Commission, previously Visiting Professor at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’homme (FMSH), Paris. Both are professionals on migration and they collectively modified ‘Asianization of Migrant Workers in the Gulf Countries” (Springer) just recently.
An interview.
We know about the predicament of migrant labourers in India. How are Indian migrants in GCC nations dealing with the pandemic?
Their plight is no less desperate. Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan wrote to the PM on the issue. In the wake of the COVID-19 spread, the circumstance of Indian immigrants is really precarious. Nurses, little business people, labourers have actually been contaminated in significant numbers and there is no take care of them. In Kuwait, I