migrant workers

The hidden cost

A conversation with Equidem's Namrata Raju on migrant worker rights and the Qatar World Cup.

| Dec 06, 2022

Every vote counts in Kashmir

Revised voting rights would mean further disempowerment for locals.

| Oct 11, 2022

Integral yet dispensable

On the impact of targeted killings of migrant workers in Kashmir.

The season of discontent

How has COVID-19 impacted civic mobilisation and organising in Southasia?

| Dec 23, 2020

Foreign investment in Southasia’s telecoms, restrictions on protests in the Maldives and more  

Southasiasphere: Issue #10 - Updates and analysis from around the region.

| Jul 24, 2020

The fight for the commons

Who has the power to secure and legislate public spaces in cities?

| May 25, 2020

Introducing Southasiasphere: The Himal guide to the region

ISSUE #1: Covid-19 in Southasia, civilian government vs the generals in Myanmar, postponed elections in SriLanka and more.

| Mar 20, 2020

Far from truth

On the policing of sexuality of migrant workers’ wives in Nepal.

| Dec 23, 2015

Piece by piece

The dark underbelly of India’s garment industry.

| Mar 15, 2015

Bigger cages, longer chains

As labour unrest afflicts the World Cup kick-off in Brazil, for Nepal’s migrant workers, Qatar 2022 is a lived reality.

| Jun 12, 2014

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