SEASONAL MIGRATION AND COVID 19 IN INDIA

Abstract

In December 2019, a novel Coronavirus has resulted in the outbreak of a respiratory illness known as COVID-19. Human coronavirus is the major cause of the 'common cold’. This virus has emerged from bats, adapted in other small wild mammals, and now acquired efficient human transmission. The novel disease has turned into a global outbreak. The COVID19 outbreak is upending life for families around the world. Schools, childcare centre are closed for this outbreak. Everyone is finding themselves stuck at home for most of the day due to lockdown. Emerged in 2019, the disease began threatening the health and lives of millions of people after a few weeks. These have declared a public health emergency through the whole world. Now the disease achieved a pandemic status. The goal of this research topic is to stimulate investigations on how migrants people are affected by the COVID19 emergency. Migrants are not familiar with their new environment in which they temporarily lived in. they are now facing various social, psychological, and emotional trauma in such situations. Previously they were forced to leave their native places. Now, they are facing decimations from their native places. The paper is based on secondary data sources and observations of the researchers during the lockdown phase of COVID19.