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Title: Sociological view of management of health of the migrant workers in kolkata nibedita bayen
Other Titles: SOCIAL TRENDS, Vol.4, 31 March 2017, p 93-112
Keywords: Migrant labourer
Medicalization
Illness
Governance
Body
Malaria
Issue Date: 31-Mar-2017
Publisher: University of North Bengal
Description: Kolkata, the economic capital of eastern India, attracts skilled and semi-skilled labourers, who migrate for a living. The migrants include sex workers, taxi drivers, shoemakers, porters, rickshaw pullers and child labourers. They migrate from Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and different regions of West Bengal. Migrants, who migrate by taking the help of a village migration network, usually take shelter in slum areas. Such places are identified by the city administration as places of extra attention to prevent outbreak of diseases. The municipal corporation puts in place a robust malaria control plan in the city. The present paper would analyse how migrant labourers are governed by the city administration as a part of its malaria-control drive and how the perceptions of health and illness of these migrant labourers change in the process.
URI: http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3592
ISSN: 2348-6538
Appears in Collections:Vol. 04 (March 2017)

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