{"id":50484,"date":"2022-11-23T22:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/nov\/23\/india-migrant-workers-work-unemployment-jobs-covid-pandemic"},"modified":"2022-11-23T22:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T13:14:22","slug":"they-are-invisible-the-migrant-workers-struggling-in-wake-of-indias-covid-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50484","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They are invisible\u2019: the migrant workers struggling in wake of India\u2019s Covid response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/23\/the-great-abandonment-the-extraordinary-exodus-of-indias-migrant-labourers-video\">a new Guardian documentary<\/a> explores the impact of one of the world\u2019s strictest lockdowns, we speak to some of those who, like millions across the country, were left poorer and more vulnerable than ever<\/p>\n<p>When Ram Yadav fled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/24\/indias-13bn-population-locked-down-to-beat-coronavirus\">India\u2019s strict countrywide lockdown<\/a> imposed in March 2020, he was one of the lucky ones, managing to hitch rides from Delhi on trucks going in the direction of his village near Kanpur, 400km (250 miles) away.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 10 million workers were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/may\/19\/my-angel-man-who-became-face-of-indias-stranded-helped-home-by-stranger-coronavirus\">forced to walk home<\/a>, travelling on foot via fields, forests and highways in the scorching sun.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/nov\/23\/india-migrant-workers-work-unemployment-jobs-covid-pandemic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a new Guardian documentary explores the impact of one of the world\u2019s strictest lockdowns, we speak to some of those who, like millions across the country, were left poorer and more vulnerable than everWhen Ram Yadav fled India\u2019s strict countrywide l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,847,59,62,958,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-employment","category-global-development","category-india","category-poverty","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50485,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50484\/revisions\/50485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}