UNDOCUMENTED: Stories Of Indian Migrants In The Arab Gulf

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  • RELEASE DATE : NOVEMBER 2021
  • Author: Rejimon Kuttappan
  • Pub: November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780143451471
  • Price: Rs. 399/-
  • Category: Non-fiction/Human Rights Stories
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Extent: 296

ABOUT THE BOOK

Our complicated and fragile global economy relies on the
unacknowledged labour of a subterranean network of undocumented
migrant workers. Despite them providing vital support to host economies,
governments continue to turn a blind eye to these migrants' woes without
any consequences. In the absence of documents to speak for them, their
human rights are systematically abused, their voices ignored, their existence
refuted. The women, as is often the case, suffer under the dual attacks of
patriarchy and anonymity. Exigencies of bureaucracy ensure that the
children are often unregistered and even lack passports. The result is a truly
exploited populace without much relief in sight. They survive on sheer
courage and perseverance, shedding blood, sweat and tears that end up
fuelling the thumping home and host economies.

In Undocumented, journalist and migrant-rights researcher Rejimon
Kuttappan brings to light the lives of these oft-ignored migrants through
stories of six Indians in the Arab Gulf, and through them, voices the plight of
millions more. Delving into histories both personal and national to establish
where we are and how we got here, the author lays bare the lives of people
betrayed by their own into human trafficking, into poverty, and into exile in
a land that only glimmers with promise.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rejimon Kuttappan is an independent journalist and a migrant rights
defender. He was Chief Reporter for the Times of Oman until he was
deported back to India in 2017, for exposing human trafficking and modern
slavery in the Arab Gulf through a front-page news story. Rejimon now
writes for the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), Middle East Eye, The
Hindu, Times of India, The Caravan, Wire and various other Indian news
portals. In 2019, he authored an anthology, Rowing Between Rooftops: The
Heroic Fishermen of Kerala Floods, telling the stories of heroic fishermen who
rescued thousands from the 2018 Kerala floods. Rejimon belongs to the
Panan Dalit community of Kerala. Historically, Panans were ballad singers
who narrated the acts of the then great warriors and kings. He wishes to
continue this storytelling legacy through his books and writing.

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