ABSTRACT
Amidst the chaos, confusion, uncertainty and fear spreading across the country because of Covid-19, the migrants are trapped in an extremely upsetting situation. And this exceptional situation has brought the spotlight on invisible labour migrants. While, on the one hand, the distressing spectacle of migrants desperately trying to flee from cities testified to the lack of planning and preparation on the part of the state, on the other, it exposed the insecurity, uncertainty and precarity of the migrants’ life and circumstances. The separateness and ‘social distancing’ get social and medical sanction when it comes to distancing with migrants. Human rights violations and dehumanising acts are getting normalised and securing ‘public’ sanction. Alt News founder Pratik Sinha noted on Twitter that an appeal to the policemen to behave humanely had elicited too many jeering comments that they were being too humane.
