Abstract
The study seek understand the impact of COVID-19 on the nexus between climate change, the labour market and migration in selected South Asian countries, particularly India, Bangladesh and Nepal, and Sri Lanka to better understand how internal and international migrant workers who moved in the context of climate change have been affected by the outbreak of COVID-19,. The research project was initiated by ILOʹs labour migration branch (MIGRANT), in collaboration with the ILO’s RESEARCH department and conducted by Professor Tasneem Siddiqui of the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU).The research draws on the diverse challenges experienced by internal and international climate-induced migrant workers from these selected South Asian countries also collates the good examples and innovative measures undertaken by the governments and civil society organizations in protecting the migrant workers during the pandemic. The research also offers some policy recommendations while factoring in the intersectional realities of migrant workers.