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Over the past half century, the confluence of neoliberal state structures and global movements of labor have progressively worsened the health precarities experienced by low-wage migrant workers. The extent of these health inequities was put on stark display during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the denial of basic health capacities for migrant workers during a global health emergency. In this chapter, I examine the progression of anti-labor executive, legislative and judicial actions leading up to, and emerging from the pandemic, in the neoliberal nation-states of India and the United States and their contribution to the curated invisibility of migrant workers.
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Kumar, R. (2023). The Role of Contemporary Neoliberal Government Policies in the Erosion of Migrant Labor Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Examination of Executive, Legislative and Judicial Trends in India and the United States. In: Kaur-Gill, S., Dutta, M.J. (eds) Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic . Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7384-0_2
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