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DOI	10.1177/00027642211000392
	A Culture-Centered Approach to Experiences of the Coronavirus Pandemic Lockdown Among Internal Migrants in India
	Mookerjee, Devalina; Chakravarty, Sujoy; Roy, Shubhabrata; Tagat, Anirudh; Mukherjee, Shagata
通讯作者	Mookerjee, D (corresponding author), Jadavpur Univ, Jadavpur Univ Press, Kolkata, W Bengal, India.
来源期刊	AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST
ISSN	0002-7642
EISSN	1552-3381
出版年	2021
英文摘要	India's coronavirus lockdown forced low-wage migrant workers to return from the city to the home towns and villages from which they came. Pre-pandemic living and working conditions were already stressful and difficult for these migrants. The lockdown became an additional burden, since it shut down sources of income with no assurance about when, or if, work and earning to support families could be resumed. This article draws on the lens of the Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) to understand how workers engaged with and navigated these difficult times. A total of 54 migrant workers locked-down at home across the Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal were interviewed for this qualitative study. Financial worries were found to be endemic, with rising debt a major source of stress, and educational qualifications becoming an obstacle to earning. Returning migrants were suspected of bringing the virus from the city, and so stigmatized in their home towns and villages. However, the pandemic lockdown also showed some unexpected healthful consequences. It provided these marginalized, and always busy workers the time and space to stop working for a while, to stay home, eat home food, and take walks in the comparatively green and clean spaces of their home environments. In this, the pandemic lockdown may be seen to have enabled a measure of agency and health in the lives of these workers, an oasis albeit temporary, and ultimately subject to the demands of the globalized cities of India.
英文关键词	India migrant worker reverse migration health of migrants CCA economic problems of migrants stigma agency
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, Other Gold
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000630796200001
WOS类目	Psychology, Clinical ; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Psychology ; Social Sciences - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/352037
作者单位	[Mookerjee, Devalina] Jadavpur Univ, Kolkata, W Bengal, India; [Chakravarty, Sujoy] Jawaharlal Nehru Univ, Econ, New Delhi, India; [Roy, Shubhabrata] Behav Insights Architecture & Strategy BIAS, New Delhi, India; [Tagat, Anirudh] Monk Prayogshala, Dept Econ, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; [Mukherjee, Shagata] Meghnad Desai Acad Econ, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mookerjee, Devalina,Chakravarty, Sujoy,Roy, Shubhabrata,et al. A Culture-Centered Approach to Experiences of the Coronavirus Pandemic Lockdown Among Internal Migrants in India[J],2021.
APA	Mookerjee, Devalina,Chakravarty, Sujoy,Roy, Shubhabrata,Tagat, Anirudh,&Mukherjee, Shagata.(2021).A Culture-Centered Approach to Experiences of the Coronavirus Pandemic Lockdown Among Internal Migrants in India.AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST.
MLA	Mookerjee, Devalina,et al."A Culture-Centered Approach to Experiences of the Coronavirus Pandemic Lockdown Among Internal Migrants in India".AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST (2021).