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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The real victims of nativist labour laws? Low-income migrant workers -Chinmay Tumbe

The real victims of nativist labour laws? Low-income migrant workers -Chinmay Tumbe

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published Published on Mar 9, 2021   modified Modified on Mar 9, 2021

-The Indian Express

Migration for work represents a match between employers looking for certain skills at low rates and workers who want to earn more than they can back home

Political rhetoric and the occasional violence against inter-state migrant workers is nothing new in India. Starting from the Mulki rules in Nizam-ruled Hyderabad in the late 19th century that favoured local employment to the anti-South Indian movements in Bombay in the 1960s (when this writer’s family surname was changed to fit in with the locals) to the “sons of the soil” movement in Assam and beyond, India has witnessed many instances of subnational nativism.

This nativism peaked in times of high unemployment and withered away when the economy did well. Nativist rhetoric also rarely transcended into actual laws in India as they remained in the realm of pre-election vote-catching banter. After all, several Articles of the Indian Constitution prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of place of birth. As pointed out by the report of the Working Group on Migration in January 2017, the Supreme Court decision in 2014 in the Charu Khurana v Union of India case “clearly renders restrictions based on residence for the purposes of employment unconstitutional.”

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The Indian Express, 9 March, 2021, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/labour-laws-migrant-workers-low-income-7219977/


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