Volume-XI, Issue-IV, July 2025 |
Invisible Labour and Compounded Vulnerability: A Study of Migrant Women During the Covid-19 Pandemic Neha Rai, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology. S.S. Khanna Girls’ Degree College, UoA, India |
Received: 10.07.2025 | Accepted: 12.07.2025 | Published Online: 31.07.2025 | Page No: | ||||
DOI: 10.29032/ijhsss.vol.11.issue.04W.112 | |||||||
ABSTRACT | ||
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed deeply entrenched gendered vulnerabilities within India’s internal migration system, particularly among migrant domestic workers. As frontline contributors to urban households, these women—often from marginalized castes and lower economic background—faced sudden job losses, wage denial, and exclusion from state-sponsored relief measures. Despite their critical role in sustaining urban care economies, they were among the first to be dismissed under social distancing norms, perceived as potential carriers of infection due to their class and residential background (often slums or informal settlements. Keywords: Migration, Domestic workers, Pandemic, Gender vulnerabilities |