G²LM|LIC - COVID-19 Returned Indian Migrant Panel

On March 24, 2020, the Indian Government announced a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, effective with a few hours of notice. For an estimated 40 million migrant workers in the country, this resulted in loss of income, food shortages, and uncertainty about the future. Over 10 million returned to rural homes in one of the largest internal migrations in the country's history. Once returned, they faced stays in government-run quarantine centers, stigma, and uncertain labor prospects. Over the next year, migrants navigated shifting mobility restrictions aimed at mitigating the spread of the pandemic, widespread outbreaks, and patchwork of social protection schemes in order to make ends meet. In order to understand the long-term labor and well-being effects of the pandemic on this population, the research team conducted a panel survey across four rounds with a random sample of 8,265 migrants that had returned to Bihar and Chhattisgarh shortly after the nationwide lockdown in March 2020. The team constructed a post-lockdown sample frame drawing from the approximate population of returned migrants, drawing from government records that attempted to catalogue all entrants in a given time period. These phone surveys included a repeated set of questions on employment and earnings, migration, access to social protections, and coping strategies, as well as single-wave modules on quarantine experiences, health behaviors and beliefs, household composition, migration networks, and discrimination. The questionnaires focused on different aspects of welfare as the pandemic in India has evolved. The following list below details important topics of the surveys: Pre-Lockdown Work Details (Employment, Earnings) Experiences Post-Migration (Harassment, Food Prices, Shortages, Bank Accounts) Awareness and Perceptions of COVID-19 Migration Networks Social Networks Political Participation Impact of COVID-19

于2020年3月24日，印度政府宣布全国范围内实施封锁，以遏制新冠病毒的传播，该封锁措施在数小时前才得到通知。对于该国大约4000万名流动工人而言，此措施导致了收入的丧失、食物短缺以及关于未来的不确定性。超过1000万人返回了农村家园，这成为了该国历史上规模最大的内部人口迁移之一。返回后，他们面临了在政府运营的隔离中心滞留、污名化和不确定的就业前景。在接下来的一年中，这些流动工人为了维持生计，不得不应对不断变化的流动性限制，这些限制旨在减轻疫情的传播、广泛爆发的疫情以及碎片化的社会保护方案。为了理解疫情对这一群体长期劳动和福祉的影响，研究团队对在2020年3月全国封锁后不久返回比哈尔邦和恰蒂斯加尔邦的8265名流动工人进行了四轮随机样本调查。研究团队构建了一个封锁后的样本框架，该框架基于返回移民的大致人口，并参考了政府记录，试图在特定时间段内对所有入境者进行目录整理。这些电话调查包括关于就业和收入、迁移、社会保护获取以及应对策略的重复性问题，以及关于隔离经历、健康行为和信念、家庭构成、迁移网络和歧视的单波模块。问卷聚焦于疫情在印度演变过程中的福利不同方面。以下列表详细介绍了调查的重要主题：封锁前工作详情（就业、收入）、迁移后经历（骚扰、食品价格、短缺、银行账户）、对COVID-19的认知和感知、迁移网络、社交网络、政治参与以及COVID-19的影响。