Climate Instability and Labour Migration in India
Published: Dec 13, 2019
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According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Geneva, around 2.7 million people were displaced by disasters and extreme weather events in India in 2018. In 2019, about 1.6 million people displaced by disasters were still in camps or living in temporary shelters.
Abstract: Climate-induced migration has put new emerging challenges for labour administration. Pre-existing regional inequalities, prevailing poverty levels, scattered and partial nature of existing labour laws, etc. alert us about further worsening of the vulnerable conditions of climate migrants.
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