ABSTRACT
As the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have severely affected the migrants and refugees, there has been a massive rise in the reports of state brutality and violence at the borders, and the worsening conditions of human survival. Considering the economic precarity, lack of adequate shelter and lack of access to appropriate health care, refugees and many other migrant groups are the most prone to facing the devastating effects of the pandemic and the emerging vaccine nationalism. Revisiting the past of South Asian migrants, refugees and diasporas in the start of the 21 century from the present-day catastrophic context has been no easy task. Instead, author have argued for the exploration of the nexus between patterns of human migration, colonisation, the uneven distribution of material resources in the world, the energy wars, changes in ecology, the increasing number of climate refugees, national securitisation policies, xenophobia and the politics of terrorism.
