Counterview on topic pandemic
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counter view on pandemic
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Crisis situation of today is compelling to think about the policy gap existing with regard to the internal migrants — the urban poor. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted some very crucial issues and one of those is the policy vacuum in the arena of internal migrants. The struggle of internal migrants bring to the forefront the inconsistencies not only with regard to policies but also reflect the weak fabric of citizenship in India.
The question of internal migrants is crucial to think about the struggles around citizenship in India. As Arjun Appadurai and James Holston in their work “Cities and Citizenship” argue, “Cities remain the strategic arena for the development of citizenship”. Restricting citizenship to merely a process of territorial belonging implies silencing of the internal inconsistencies in it arising out of the inequalities in the system.
Proliferation of homelessness faced by internal migrants in the cities despite their formal citizenship status has raised question on the fabric of citizenship practice in India. What does being “a citizen” of a nation-state entail? What are the limits of formal citizenship status?