Unskilled Migrant Women Labour during Locked down: A Socio -Economic perspective

Abstract

Migration is a process which led the distribution of human on this planet with different cause for food and survival. The economic opportunity becomes a dominant cause after agriculture.  Millions of workers had to migrate back to their original places due to Locked down. Mainly in their villages in India intensified the magnitude of reverse migration of Semi-skilled and unskilled workers and they were the most to suffer in this pandemic of Covid – 19 outbreaks.                   ‘According to the ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the World of Work report published on 7 April 2020 estimated that in India, 400 million workers in the informal economy were at the risk of falling deeper into poverty throughout the crisis, the biggest group affected by the pandemic in the worst way has been that of the poor migrants.¹ The locked down impacted the life of women labour disproportionately who were working as domestic helps, home-based workers, care workers, etc. with no secure contracts, regular paid work and social protection.  The proposed study focused on a contemporary issue which will try to unfold the negative effects & challenges of this reverse migration to themselves and their family. Also identified the unskilled level of male & female migrant labour who came back in three tehasils of Gautam buddha nagar during locked down.