ABSTRACT
This chapter understands the crisis that the migrant workers are encountering every moment in the post-lockdown period, and the nature of the Indian economy and the policy response (both from the Union and different State Governments) to deal with the crisis. It delves into the nature of the present migrant crisis – the features of it as a humanitarian crisis. In fact, as the crises of global capitalism have shown, labour bears the risk to save the capital. Even the social cost of capitalism as it is unfurled during this Corona pandemic is being borne by the labour – especially those who are migrants and footloose. The migrants’ crisis is intertwined with the public health crisis and also, with the crisis of the Indian economy. Migrants remain the most vulnerable section of the working class while they bear all sorts of risk emanated from this pandemic and concomitant lockdown and also bear the social costs.
