Kerala Migrant Workers

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Beyond the workers' labour, these films ventured to underline their personhood - their ideas, habits, sexual appetites, fears, and capacity for feeling

Labour shortage, unusual to India, is characteristic of Kerala where labour migration is more a requirement of the state than that of the migrant workers themselves