The Migration Story

As Muslims across Jammu and Kashmir immerse themselves in worship during Ramzan, migrants from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Telangana work tirelessly in bakeries to make sweets for the fasting season and Eid celebrations. The seasonal migrant workers usually arrive at the beginning of Ramzan and stay on for a few months before returning home.  Read our ground report from Baramulla by Tauseef Ahmad and Sajid Raina Editing by Subuhi Jiwani https://lnkd.in/dzmZn7aA #migration #seasonalmigrants #Eid #Eidfestivities #food

For Mumbai’s migrant workers, train journeys home are a reminder of past hardships — and the fear of their return. For many migrant workers, train journeys, as crowded, inconvenient and suffocating as they may be, remain the cheapest, fastest and even most reliable mode of transport to their homes. This is a belief that has become stronger after the lockdown and the nightmares that they had to endure to get back home.   Hepzi Anthony and Prashant Nakwe report from the busy Bandra Terminus station as part of our ongoing 'A Pandemic's Epilogue' Series. Read the full photo essay here: www.themigrationstory.com All pictures by Prashant Nakwe. #migration #IndianRailways #COVIDlockdown #migrantexodus

The COVID-19 lockdown didn't just bring the country to a halt. The loss of wages and mounting debt forced many parents - many of them informal workers - to pull their children out of formal schooling. A bunch of initiatives in Assam are trying to bring back migrant workers’ children to school, but the impact of the COVID-led break in their education lingers. Do read this ground report from the suburbs of Guwahati by Maitreyee Boruah as part of our ongoing 'A Pandemic's Epilogue' series https://lnkd.in/dNU4vE9T #migration #COVIDlockdown #migrantexodus #schooling #migrantworkers #children

March 25, 2025, will mark five years since India imposed a nationwide lockdown to control the spread of the deadly Covid 19 pandemic. More than 1 crore migrant workers returned to their home states following the announcement. With public transport services interrupted, lakhs of migrant workers and their families undertook on foot journeys of hundreds of kilometres facing death, despair and starvation on route. On this podcast, independent journalist Anuja . speaks to Puspendra, former Professor and Chairperson of the Patna Centre of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), on how prepared are we as a nation if a situation similar to a COVID lockdown arises again. Full podcast here: https://lnkd.in/dAFUhMgR Listen to it on Spotify here: https://lnkd.in/duDkbytk Podcast producer: Akshay Ramuhalli #migration #lockdown #migrantsexodus #COVID19 #pandemic

It’s been only a month since Shabbir Khan received the news of the execution of his youngest daughter, Shahzadi, on charges of killing the four-month-old infant she was nanny to in the United Arab Emirates. But the farmer from  Matoundh village in Uttar Pradesh has risen above his grief to ensure that no other migrant from his village in a Gulf country faces the problems, and fate, his daughter did. Read our latest ground report from Banda in Uttar Pradesh here: https://lnkd.in/dktv7zBE Reporting by Zoya Hussain and Zeeshan Akhtar #Gulfjobs #Gulfmigrants #Shahzadiexecution

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The Migration Story is only over a year old and our stories by Roli Srivastava exploring community-led solutions to tackle the global climate crisis and arresting migration has made it to the shortlist of The Media Foundation's prestigious Chameli Devi Jain Award! This is an important recognition of the work we are doing at The Migration Story and shows how collaborations help us bring important stories from some of India's most underreported regions. Do check out the stories that won us the nomination here: 1. The Great Wall of Surajpura https://lnkd.in/dF9nm-Ax 2. The drought that spawned an ice cream industry https://lnkd.in/g_zafuxP 3. Jungle is our life: the story of a village collective https://lnkd.in/d_FmGimH 4. Millionaire village: how forest ownership rights reshaped the fortunes of a tribal village - The Migration Story https://lnkd.in/dHJJUDDy International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Archisman Mitra Shilp Verma Suchiradipta B., Centre for Local Democracy @ Azim Premji University #migration #digitalnewsmedia #journalismawards

The terminology used to describe the recent repatriation of undocumented Indian migrants from the U.S. gives an insight into how the choice of words can be used to frame a group of people with grace and basic human dignity, or call into question their very existence as human beings. Do read our latest analysis by Namrata Raju here: https://lnkd.in/dGZSHprn #migrants #deportation #US #Trump

Our story on Kerala nursing students undergoing trainings on safe migration by Mahima Jain is co-published by The Guardian. Approximately 640,000 Indian nurses work abroad. More than 87,800 Indian nurses work in OECD countries, the second highest after the Philippines. (In OECD countries approximately 16% of nurses are foreign-born.) Many more nursing students want to work overseas. But a series of deportations and nurses landing in legal trouble has these job aspirants worried. Which explains why nursing students are showing the highest interest in NORKA Roots training programmes on safe migration. Read the story in The Guardian here: https://lnkd.in/dENvuYVM Original story in The Migration Story: https://lnkd.in/dVyNgGDZ #migration #Kerala #nurses #deportations

March 25, 2025 will mark five years of the nationwide lockdown that triggered a massive exodus of migrant workers from cities to their villages. The Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme had emerged as a 'shock absorber' then, creating a paid work opportunity for thousands of people who lost work overnight as industries shut. This is part of our 'A Pandemic's Epilogue' series, where Harikishan Sharma, senior assistant editor with The Indian Express uses data to break down MGNREGA's role during the lockdown and its continued importance. Listen to the full podcast here: https://lnkd.in/dYPTN6tK #migration #pandemic #mgnrega #ruraljobs #agriculture #jobguarantee