Demanding a 'just recovery' from below: the role of grassroots accountability activism in safeguarding labour migrants' rights in the pandemic era

Project in the Movements, Policy and the Politics of Inequality theme within the Politics of Inequality research programme

What are the opportunities and limitations for grassroots accountability activism to assert the political potentials for a 'just recovery' for labour migrants in post-Covid Nepal? This project seeks to examine this overarching question. Using the Covid-19 disaster as a site of political possibility, the project will draw on the perspectives and experiences of labour migrants, youth activists and volunteers to understand the potential of grassroots activism in challenging intersecting inequalities facing labour migrants in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis in Nepal.