COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine politics, and its impact on migrant workers

Padma Prasad Khatiwada and Sanjay Hamal

Chapter 21 in Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities, 2025, pp 386-394 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant workers in Nepal and India through a political-economy lens. Employing a subaltern perspective, the chapter analyses the dehumanization and marginalization of migrant workers. Intersectionality is used to situate their vulnerabilities at the intersections of class, poverty, informal work, and migrant identity. The chapter critiques the classist treatment of migrant workers and calls for institutional reforms to protect marginalized populations. The chapter concludes with the pandemic exposing the systemic precarity of migrant workers, necessitating a fundamental rethinking of policies to safeguard their rights and livelihoods during crises of vulnerability.

Keywords: Vaccine Inequality; COVID-19; Migrant Workers; Margination; Rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035301225
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