Applications Invited for Labour Migration in India: Perspectives and Policies for Practice

About the Organization

Azim Premji University is a private university, located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It was founded in 2010 and is named after Azim Premji, an Indian businessman and philanthropist who was chairman of Wipro Limited. The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and several short-term diplomas and certificate courses. It claims that its curriculum is designed to contribute to the social sector in India.

About the Course

Internal labour migration is an overwhelming reality underscoring India’s developmental landscape. Millions of people are on the move across the country, in search of a livelihood and adequate means of survival. While migration opens up new vistas of work and employment, creating new opportunities for many, it also pushes people into unequal and highly exploitative work regimes. On the one hand, migration provides an exit from the structural challenges of rural society, including agrarian distress and caste violence. On the other hand, it can create new forms of exploitation. The recent pandemic has highlighted the vulnerabilities of migrants’ lives even further, questioning their belongingness to the city where many have spent several years.

Despite migration being widespread, it remains poorly understood as a socio-historical, cultural and an economic phenomenon. There is a compelling need to build a critical understanding of migration from different vantage points, locating migration at the cusp of changing nature of work, market and state interventions.

In such a scenario, it is important to understand what migration means to the migrants themselves. What do different patterns of labour migration really tell us about the changing nature of work and about migration itself? Can rapid urbanisation and the growth of cities become a beacon of hope for migrant workers? These questions can help the participants dive further into the issues of working conditions, safe migration and strategies of organising the migrants, with a focus on women migrants and informal work. This will enable them to interrogate the State policies related to labour migration.

Keeping these issues in view, and the contradictions that surround labour migration, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru is offering a certificate course for development practitioners.

What does the course offer?

The course will explore critically, and in-depth, the debates and diverse viewpoints through which migration in India is understood and represented. The learning objectives of the course are to:

• Explore theoretical frameworks and empirical knowledge on labour migration.
• Critically analyse the dynamics of internal labour migration in India as a contemporary social and economic reality.
• Explore key development agendas from a migration lens and analyse the related policy frameworks.
• The course also offers the opportunity to learn from the organisations working with migrant labour in different sectors, through a one-day intensive field visit.

Eligibility

This course is open to early and mid-career professionals who are working in the domain of labour, particularly issues related to urbanisation, informal labour, labour rights, and others interested in learning more about migration in India. All applicants must possess a working knowledge of English. Applicants will be shortlisted based on their written applications.

How to Apply

Last date for submitting applications is 15 Sept 2026.

Selected candidates will be informed by 30 Sept 2026.

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