The data for this research was collected through the archives listed below. It was also collected from interviews of migrants and migrant labourers, living in Vapi, Surat, Ahmedabad and Lucknow during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The interviews were conducted in person as well as over phone (In two cases, information about migrants were obtained from a mediate source, over phone calls). Wherever possible, a questionnaire was adhered to. In all cases, ethical guidelines were followed.
The information was used to present an idea of the lives of migrant workers, during the government-mandated nation-wide lockdown implemented as of 24th March. This was done in the context of vast mobilization of labourers across the country during this period.
Some of the graphs used in the deck were plotted using Datawrapper (a data visualization tool) and the relevant data sets were sourced from the official website of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and Our World in Data, an online publication.
Primary Sources
- Interviews of international migrants, migrant workers, witnesses of Surat Plague, 1994.
- Photographs taken by us
- https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/india-office-records - The British Library's repository of private letters, manuscripts and official documents from or relating to India.
- https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/ - The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, from project Apollo, University of Cambridge, for the images and documents of colonial India.
- https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/ - University of Cambridge’s Centre for South Asian Studies, a repository covering a period of over 200 years, include 600 written collections, 900 maps, 100,000 photographs, and 80 collections of cinéfilms
- https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/ - An open-source repository software used for creating open-access digital repositories for academic purposes. We accessed official documents such as Annual Census reports and Sanitation Commission reports.
- https://ruralindiaonline.org/ - The People's Archive of Rural India, an initiative of documenting the lives and oral stories of people from rural India, initiated by journalist P. Sainath.
Secondary Sources
- Journal articles and research papers
- Newspaper Articles
