Topic: Migrant workers
24-year-old migrant laborer beaten to death by mob in Kerala
A 24-year-old migrant worker from Arunachal Pradesh was brutally beaten to death by a mob on Friday in Kerala’s Ernakulam district.
Fired by employers, denied wages, forced to flee homes: Plight of Muslim migrant workers in violence-hit Haryana
Ahead of Haryana violence, a day later, on August 1, hundreds of Muslim migrants, mostly from West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, fled from their shanties in Palra village of Sector 70A of Gurgaon after members of Bajrang Dal threatened and assaulted them while entering their area with wielded sticks, swords, and guns, saying, "If you will not leave, they will burn the slum or kill them."
Mizoram: Eight migrant workers dead after stone quarry collapses
Eight migrant workers died and at least four are feared to be trapped after a stone quarry collapsed in Mizoram’s Hnahthial district on Monday.
Mizoram: 12 migrant laborers fear trapped after stone quarry collapses
At least 12 migrant laborers are feared trapped after a stone quarry collapsed in Mizoram’s Hnahthial district on Monday.
Sanitation precarity and subsistence; Women of Peeli Kothi
“We live near a dump yard, no amount of waste produced by us equals the garbage that is dumped here from the city,” says...
