Modern-Day Slavery: The Global Crisis Of Migrant Workers By Covid-19 And The Laws That Govern Them

Modern-Day Slavery: The Global Crisis Of Migrant Workers By Covid-19 And The Laws That Govern Them To Globalization

Ankurita Bit, LL.M, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences

ABSTRACT

Law and justice are interlinked concepts but are still not the same. Justice is a broader concept which lies in the institution of equity, equality and integrity. And the law is a set of regulations regulated by governments and international bodies based upon the concept of justice. In today’s world, globalization has transcended and become an integrated part of human life and societies. Thus, it is appropriate to analyze the relationship between law, justice and globalization; that is, the role of law in securing justice with the emerging globalization. Developing global societies brings fundamental, economic, societal, political and legal changes. The host countries have increasingly given migrant workers acceptance. Under the convention of the United Nations and International Labour Organization (ILO), migrant workers have the right to be protected by the host countries. Still, the implementation of these legal instruments has failed to satisfy their rights for protecting them as migrant workers because there is no national treatment for those migrants. These issues of migrant workers crisis have been witnessed more often by the time of Covid-19 across the borders. Even within the territory of India, in a worsened situation where these workers have faced no job situation, and the panic of returning to their homelands got them worried that their right to live in human conditions has been endangered. By this, it can be stated that there are many issues regarding the exploitation of rights of these workers, like facing poor living conditions, limited access to medical support services, etc. thus, this paper is to discuss the issues of migrant workers and the violation of their rights under the international migration laws and national migrant laws by the time of Covid-19 strikes the world. And how these rights of migrant workers can be so ensured to attain justice on a global aspect.

Keywords: globalization, Covid-19, migration, workers, human rights.