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THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SOCIAL PROBLEMS AMONG MIGRANT WORKERS IN CHENNAI DISTRICT, TAMILNADU

C. DAVID 1, and T. PUGALETNHI 2.

Vol 18, No 10 ( 2023 )   |  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10025371   |   Author Affiliation: Research Scholar, Department of Population Studies, Annamalai University 1; Research Supervisor, Department of Population Studies, Annamalai University 2.   |   Licensing: CC 4.0   |   Pg no: 629-640   |   Published on: 08-10-2023

Abstract

India, migrant workers confront a variety of difficulties and threats, including exploitation, harassment, assault, trafficking, bonded labour, low pay, unsafe working conditions, and lack of social protection, health concerns, and exclusion from development initiatives. To analyse basic social aspects and the impact of COvid 19 of migrant workers. To find the association between social problems and Covid-19. In the field of migration studies, there has been very less number of research on the relationship between pandemics and migration before COVID-19. In general, there has been growing attention in the field to the key topic of health-related migration. When people living in this motherland work in different parts of the country to support their families financially through construction workers, hotel workers, miners, cleaners, agricultural workers, restaurant workers, retail, transport workers, social workers, maid and so on they face lot of problems out of them one is social aspects. This research made an attempt to bring the problems faced by the migrant worries during the pandemic situation. The p-value (Sig.) associated with the F-statistic is 0.029, 0.011, 0.007, 0.316, 0.003, and 0.000 of gender, age, marital status religion education and duration of stay in Chennai respectively. Since the p-value is lesser than the typical significance level of 0.05, the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and H1 is accepted based on the results of the ANOVA. The statistical analysis is concluded that there is a constant relationship between the social aspects among the emigrant workers


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