Exodus Constitutionalism: Mass Migration in COVID Lockdown Times

Archiving the Pandemic
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Archiving the Pandemic

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Upendra Baxi

The India Forum

Overview

In this article, Upendra Baxi discusses the profound socio-legal impacts of various disasters and catastrophes, focusing on the migrants’ crises following the state of emergency declared in India, in an attempt to cope with COVID-19. For the author, India’s current constitutionalism can be called “Exodus Constitutionalism", a development that threatens to devalue citizenship.

_{Migrant workers walk the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Delhi on their way home on May 13, 2020 | © Amarjeet Kumar Singh}