scholarly journals From labour contractors to worker-agents: Transformations in the recruitment of migrant labourers in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayaseelan Raj ◽  
Richard Axelby
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
The South ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Migrant Labour ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Indian State

This article examines the circumstances in which the tasks performed by professional labour contractors may be passed on to worker-agents. It does so by critically engaging with the experience of migrant workers from the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand as they travel to work in the Peermade tea belt in the South Indian state of Kerala. Specifically, we identify shifts in economic and political contexts that have permitted these functions to pass from labour contractors to workers-agents and from a Sardari (top-down) to a Ristedari (kinship based) system. Outlining the functions of the labour contractor—as bridge, broker and buffer—the article details the complex processes and the series of negotiations that occur during the transition from labour contractor to worker-agent-led recruitment and the implications of this shift for labour relations in the production setting. We conclude by calling for further consideration of the ‘worker-agent’ as a key emerging figure in understanding the contemporary transformations in the reproduction of footloose migrant labour, which may have larger ramifications for other contexts in South Asia and beyond.

Reducing Vulnerability to Forced Labor and Trafficking of Short-Term, Low-Skilled Women Migrant Workers in the South Asia to Middle East Corridor

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagar ElDidi ◽  
Chloe van Biljon ◽  
Muzna Fatima Alvi ◽  
Claudia Ringler ◽  
Nazmun Ratna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
The South ◽  
Short Term

scholarly journals Crisis and retirement

Focaal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (86) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Jayaseelan Raj
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Tea Industry ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Retired Workers

AbstractThe recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the crisis—deferred their service payout. This article seeks to understand the severe alienation of the retirees as they struggle to regain lost respect, kinship network, and everyday sociality in the plantations and beyond. I argue that the alienation produced through their dispossession as wage laborers and the discrimination as Tamil-speaking Dalit must be understood as an interrelated process, whereas the source of alienation cannot be reduced to production or categorical relations alone.

scholarly journals To Study the Serum Iron and Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Children in Different Communities in the South Indian State of Telangana: A Cross Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Jonnala Umesh ◽  
Jillela Mahesh Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin B12 ◽  
Serum Iron ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Vitamin B12 Deficiency ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
The South ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Indian State

Background: National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4 2015-2016) documented the prevalence of anaemia as overall more than three-quarters (76 percent) of children. Anaemia is the most common Haematological disease of the paediatric age group. Anaemia is the highest prevalence in developing countries. The population differences in the prevalence of anaemia are explained by environmental factors affecting nutrition, chief among these are economic status, ethnic customs & geographic considerations. Furthermore, there is very limited information on prevalence of Iron and B12 deficiencies among children belonging to different communities with culturally defined eating habits. In the present study carried out to compare the Serum Iron & Vitamin B12 in children of different communities in the South Indian state of Telangana. Material & Methods: In this population based cross sectional observational study was conducted on the department of paediatrics in the Chalmeda Anandrao Institute of Medical Sciences, Karimnagar, Telangana, during the period from 1st January 2020 to till reached the sample size. The study was conducted with the approval from the institutional review and ethical committees. In this study includes children were of the age between 5 to 18 years with the 3 different communities like, Hindu, Muslim & others community. Results: In the above table we shows that the Others community of age is 12.85 ± 2.65 years, Hindu community of age is 12.76 ± 3.46 years & Muslim community of age is 14.96 ± 2.00 years. In our study, the prevalence of Serum Iron was found to be 21.7% (26 out of 120) & prevalence of Vitamin B12 was found to be 50.0% (60 out of 120). Conclusion: The overall prevalence of anaemia (low Haemoglobin) was found to be 43.33%. There was no significant difference between the prevalence of anaemia in 3 different communities. Keywords: Serum Iron, Vitamin B12, Anaemia, Deficiency.

scholarly journals Visual Impairment in the South Indian State of Andhra Pradesh: Andhra Pradesh - Rapid Assessment of Visual Impairment (AP-RAVI) Project

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. e70120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srinivas Marmamula ◽  
Saggam Narsaiah ◽  
Konegari Shekhar ◽  
Rohit C. Khanna ◽  
Gullapalli N. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Rapid Assessment ◽  
The South ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Indian State

Mappila Muslim Masculinities: A History of Contemporary Abjectification

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 542-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammadali P. Kasim
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
The South ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Indian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial

This article explores multiple dimensions of stereotyping Mappila Muslim masculinities in the south Indian state of Kerala, as abject and demonized other. I begin with a survey of the British colonial construction of Mappila masculinity as, for example, militant religious fanatic, against the historical background of encounters between the two. It follows an examination of the new ways of reproducing these constructs in a changed yet hegemonic narrative public domain of the contemporary where Hindu majoritarian nationalism gathers its momentum. In so doing, this article also scrutinizes the larger mythological and structural elements of the contemporary refiguring. Drawing from these historical and contemporary trajectories, I argue that abjectification of Muslim masculinities is one of the basic ingredients of Islamophobia at work, often in banal forms.

scholarly journals Kerala: Temples and World-Class Universities

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Altbach
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Research University ◽  
The South ◽  
Hindu Temple ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Indian State ◽  
World Class ◽  
World Class Universities

A Hindu temple in the south Indian state of Kerala has located treasure work several billion dollars in its basement. This article proposes uses some of that money to build a world-class research university in Kerala to help boost its knowledge economy.

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