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The ‘Long March’ of Migrant Laborers in India: Cities and Moral Outrage

The ‘Long March’ of Migrant Laborers in India: Cities and Moral Outrage City & Society The ‘Long March’ of Migrant Laborers in India: Cities and Moral Outrage Rakesh Krishnan, doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India The announcement of the national lockdown in India on 24 March 2020 triggered fear and panic among the people. A dystopian future of Mad Max and The Waste Land started playing in the minds of the millions. The middle class in urban India started its preparation by stockpiling whatever it deemed necessary. Various gated communities piled additional rules and clauses for self-preservation, sometimes bordering on hysteria and lack of common sense. Fear, self- preservation, and distrust of the outsiders underpinned the dispositions of the people in the gated communities. All in the hope that they will be shielded in an impenetrable cocoon that will keep out the virus which was circulating outside their well-protected walls. The irony is that the virus was imported by the global Indians and corporate middle-class in the gated communities! While the mobile and privileged in the cities unleashed their defensive and offensive strategies to cope with the imminent threat of a virus, the unknown and unacknowledged bodies that serviced them started the long journey to their villages. Multiple http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

The ‘Long March’ of Migrant Laborers in India: Cities and Moral Outrage

Krishnan, Rakesh
City & Society , Volume 32 (3) – Dec 1, 2020
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City & Society The ‘Long March’ of Migrant Laborers in India: Cities and Moral Outrage Rakesh Krishnan, doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India The announcement of the national lockdown in India on 24 March 2020 triggered fear and panic among the people. A dystopian future of Mad Max and The Waste Land started playing in the minds of the millions. The middle class in urban India started its preparation by stockpiling whatever it deemed necessary. Various gated communities piled additional rules and clauses for self-preservation, sometimes bordering on hysteria and lack of common sense. Fear, self- preservation, and distrust of the outsiders underpinned the dispositions of the people in the gated communities. All in the hope that they will be shielded in an impenetrable cocoon that will keep out the virus which was circulating outside their well-protected walls. The irony is that the virus was imported by the global Indians and corporate middle-class in the gated communities! While the mobile and privileged in the cities unleashed their defensive and offensive strategies to cope with the imminent threat of a virus, the unknown and unacknowledged bodies that serviced them started the long journey to their villages. Multiple

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