scholarly journals India on foot: Internal migrants during COVID-19 in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Leelashree Godara ◽  
Sourav Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Internal Migrant ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Social Security Act ◽  
Internal Migrants

India, home to a population of 1.2 billion, is the country fourth worst hit by COVID-19 in terms of the total number of cases. Within this humongous population is the category of internal migrant workers who have been hit to the extent that their survival is at stake. Introducing this catastrophic hit, this policy brief purposefully elaborates on the challenges faced by India in dealing with this pandemic. The number of internal migrants in India is greater than the total population of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany put together. This unmasks the need for deliberation on the issue of social security of these migrant workers and the role of the state in providing it. Despite measures like the ‘Inter-state workmen act, 1979’, ‘Unorganised Sector Workers Social Security Act, 2008’, and findings of multiple committees, the migrant workers have not been able to integrate into their destination regions to a satisfactory level. Through this paper, the loopholes in these provisions have been highlighted and it has been explained how these provisions failed miserably when put to test by a global pandemic. The authors point out that given the diversity in India’s states, a one-size-fits approach is bound to fail and thus they endorse the demand for greater decentralisation in decision making when it comes to managing a health crisis. The authors recommend a tailor-made and feasible data collection and maintenance strategy as the base on which new provisions for migrant workers could be formulated.

scholarly journals COVID-19 related mortality in post-operative cardiac surgical patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azhar Hussain ◽  
Amina Khalil ◽  
Priyanka Kolvekar ◽  
Prity Gupta ◽  
Shyamsunder Kolvekar
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Surgery ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Case Presentation ◽  
Elective Cardiac Surgery ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Cardiac Operations ◽  
Related Mortality

Abstract Background COVID-19 has caused a global pandemic of unprecedented proportions. Elective cardiac surgery has been universally postponed with only urgent and emergency cardiac operations being performed. The National Health Service in the United Kingdom introduced national measures to conserve intensive care beds and significantly limit elective activity shortly after lockdown. Case presentation We report two cases of early post-operative mortality secondary to COVID-19 infection immediately prior to the implementation of these widespread measures. Conclusion The role of cardiac surgery in the presence of COVID-19 is still very unpredictable and further studies on both short term and long term outcomes are warranted.

scholarly journals KONSEP WELLFARE STATE DI INDONEISA

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Winda Roselina Effendi
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Services ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Market Economy System ◽  
Economy System

Walfare State concept born in the era of the 20th century as a correction of the development of the concept of the country as night watchman, the phenomenon of economic capitalism that gradually leads to lameness in the distribution of sources of prosperity. In the Walfare State concept, the state is required to extend its responsibility to the socio-economic problems facing the people. The functions of the state also include activities that were previously beyond the scope of state functions, such as extending the provision of social services to individuals and families in specific matters, such as social security. The role of the state can not be separated with Welfare State because the state that plays a role in managing the economy which includes the responsibility of the state to ensure the availability of basic welfare services in certain levels. Welfare State does not reject the existence of a capitalist market economy system but believes that there are elements in the public order that are more important than market objectives and can only be achieved by controlling and limiting the operation of such market mechanisms.Keywords: walfare state, country, economic systemKonsep Walfare State yang lahir di era abad ke-20 sebagai koreksi berkembangnya konsep negara sebagai penjaga malam, gejala kapitalisme perekonomian yang secara perlahan-lahan menyebabkan terjadinya kepincangan dalam pembagian sumber-sumber kemakmuran bersarma. Dalam konsep Walfare State, negara dituntut untuk memperluas tanggung jawabnya kepada masalah-masalah sosial ekonomi yang dihadapi rakyat. Fungsi negara juga meliputi kegiatan-kegiatan yang sebelumnya berada diluar jangkauan fungsi negara, seperti memperluas ketentuan pelayanan sosial kepada individu dan keluarga dalam hal-hal khusus, seperti social security, kesehatan.  Peran negara tidak bisa dipisahkan dengan Welfare State karena negara yang berperan dalam mengelola perekonomian yang yang di dalamnya mencakup tanggung jawab negara untuk menjamin ketersediaan pelayanan kesejahteraan dasar dalam tingkat tertentu. Welfare State tidak menolak keberadaan sistem ekonomi pasar kapitalis tetapi meyakini bahwa ada elemen-elemen dalam tatanan masyarakat yang lebih penting dari tujuan-tujuan pasar dan hanya dapat dicapai dengan mengendalikan dan membatasi bekerjanya mekanisme pasar tersebut. Kata Kunci: walfare state, negara,sistem ekonomi 

SAGA OF MIGRANT WORKERS IN INDIA: MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN SOCIAL SECURITY

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-195
Author(s):  
Deepa Pillai ◽  
Leena Dam
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
State Level ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Government Interventions ◽  
Internal Migrants ◽  
Security Standards

COVID 19 pandemic has thrown up bitter colors when India witnessed the large scale gory sage of reverse internal migration of unorganized workforce. As compared to intercontinental migration the degree of internal migration is twice. Displacement, lockdowns, loss of employment, starvation and social distancing provoked a frenzied course of mass return for internal migrants in India and other parts of the world. In India there is a peculiar trend of unorganized workforce migration. Out of 29 states and 7 union territories, few states dominate where migrants flock for seeking livelihood. The fleeing of migrants to their inherent origin has weakened the economic activities towards slowdown in the economic growth. This thematic review paper discusses the problems of the internal migrants and their state during and post lockdown announcements in India. The data included extracts of articles, opinions and reviews for which codes were recognized which lead to formulation of research themes. The review also highlights government interventions in addressing the challenges confronted by the internal migrants with social security. This study proposes an arrangement as migrant exchange at state level for efficient policy formulation and accomplishment of social security standards.

scholarly journals The political economy of unfree labor and the state: An Indonesian case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-78
Author(s):  
Benni Yusriza
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Unfree Labor ◽  
Victim Protection ◽  
Trafficking Victims

Employing the concept of unfree labor, this article explores the role of the state in reinforcing victims’ vulnerability and shaping the political economy of trafficking practices. Based on a case study of trafficking victims in Benjina and Ambon, Maluku Province, Indonesia, I argue that Indonesian authorities’ intervention was driven not by humanitarian interest, nor by the concern for the protection of migrant workers’ rights, but rather by the intent to advance a political and economic agenda against the Thai fishing industry. Consequently, the intervention ignored the exploitative relations of production that underpinned the vulnerability of victims, despite being conducted in the name of victim-protection and improving livelihoods.

Legal basis of the mechanism of implementation of the constitutional right to social security in the Russian Federation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Павел Байматов ◽  
Pavel Baymatov
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Municipal Employees ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
The Right

The monograph is a study of theoretical and practical problems associated with the implementation of the constitutional right of citizens to social security. It adequately covers the historical and contemporary issues of the right to social security in Russia, studying international experience. The book raises the problem of implementation of the constitutional right of citizens to social security in the Russian Federation in modern conditions, if necessary, reduce the paternalistic role of the state, proposed measures aimed at increasing the role of citizens, identified theses related to the search for the most optimal and effective forms of modernization of the mechanism of realization of the right to social security. The book is addressed to state and municipal employees, deputies of representative bodies of state power and local self-government, researchers, teachers, graduate students, students of Humanities and a wide range of readers.

scholarly journals Peranan Jaksa Pengacara Negara dalam Menyelesaikan Kasus Mewakili Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial (BPJS) Ketenagakerjaan di Denpasar

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-467
Author(s):  
Gusti Ayu Ajeng Prabaningtyas ◽  
Nyoman Putu Budiartha ◽  
I Made Minggu Widyantara
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Power Of Attorney ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Special Power ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Social Security Agency

The prosecutor as the recipient of the power of attorney in a special power of attorney, which in this case represents employment BPJS, handles legal issues related to entrepreneurs who have not registered themselves and staff as members of the Manpower Dependent Program. The purposes of this study are to reveal the role of state attorneys in resolving cases representing the Social Security Administering Body (BPJS) for employment in Denpasar and the efforts of state attorneys to resolve cases representing BPJS for employment in Denpasar. This type of research is sociological with an empirical juridical approach. Data collection techniques were carried out by literature study, observation, interviews related to this research. Sources of data used in the form of secondary and primary data which are then analyzed systematically. The results of the study indicate that the role of the State Attorney's Attorney in resolving cases representing BPJS Ketenagakerjaan as a legal counsel with a Special Power of Attorney to resolve the company has not recorded itself and its staff in the Manpower Dependent Program. While the efforts of State Lawyers in resolving cases representing BPJS Ketenagakerjaan, with a Special Power of Attorney from BPJS Ketenagakerjaan, State Attorneys act in terms of providing non-litigation legal assistance by mediating business entities and individuals who do not register as members of the Employment Social Security Agency or have not complied with the payment of fees

scholarly journals Understanding the Role of the State in Promoting Capitalist Accumulation: A Case Study of the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Joseph Yaw Asomah
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Agricultural Worker ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Policies And Practices

There is limited in-depth research focusing on how the state exerts power and its influence through immigration laws, policies and practices in structuring the relations of labour and capital in a manner that reflects capitalist interests. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the state in fostering capitalist accumulation, using the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) as a case study, and to consider the implications for policy. This paper addresses these questions: What shapes and reproduces labour-capital relations with reference to SAWP? What are the repercussions of these relations, particularly on the international migrant workers? What should be the role of the state and law in transforming these relations? The paper draws on a constellation of insights from neoliberal globalization, segmentation of labour theory, and a conceptual overview of the role of the state in regulating labour-capital relations to illuminate the discussions. This paper helps broaden our current understanding of how the state faciliates capitalist accumulation in the agricultural sector in Canada through immigration policies and practices with reference to the SAWP. The paper therefore makes a contribution to the theoretical debates on the role of the state in the facilitation of capitalist accumulation in agriculture.

scholarly journals Nongovernmental China: 300 Million Migrant Workers and the NGO Response

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Iam Dorfman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
Internal Migrant ◽  
Transition To Capitalism

Based on seventy weeks of field research in Beijing and Shenzhen, as well as a review of relevant literature, this dissertation explores the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in creating and redefining local economic relationships with China’s 300 million internal migrant workers. The founders/directors of these organizations run programs to improve migrants’ access to legal aid, education, and sense of community. Their perspectives, experiences, and decision-making provide significant insights into China’s paradoxical relationship with its migrant workers as well as changing state-society relations in the transition to capitalism.

Women Leaders in Syria in the COVID-19 Response and Beyond

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-125
Author(s):  
Kristen Meagher ◽  
Aula Abbara ◽  
Ola Fahham ◽  
Preeti Patel
Keyword(s):  
Women Leaders ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Holistic Approaches ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Face ◽  
Women's Role

Abstract. Providing a powerful platform to openly discuss how we, as a global community, can advance the role of women as leaders in health in conflict-affected settings is an undervalued opportunity. Honest, evidence-based discussions, holistic approaches, and increasing the visibility of women role models are imperative in settings that are debilitated by conflict and restrictive gender norms. When gender equity and equality are not prioritized, we tend to consciously or not overlook the needs of half the population. In the face of a global pandemic, it is ever more pressing to ensure that such discussions continue and are not relegated. The evidence is overwhelming, COVID-19 impacts women disproportionately, and this is exacerbated in conflict settings. The reflections in this commentary are based on a webinar held on October 21, 2020, supported by the Women Leaders in Health and Conflict initiative ( Abbara et al., 2020 ). The panelists included Dr. Aula Abbara, Dr. Abdulkarim Ekzayez, and Dr. Ola Fahham, and the webinar was attended by 30 participants from across the Middle East and the United Kingdom. We examine three key themes: women's role in the health sector in Syria, education and culture, and meaningful leadership.

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