Children and Scars of COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Issues and Challenges

by Abhimanyu Datta (Editor), Bipin Jojo (Editor)

Overview

This volume discusses the various challenges faced by children in India from different perspectives such as education, psychology, and sociology during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights the nature of undocumented struggles of refugees, children with special needs, girl children/ girl child, child labourers, children from SC/ST and other disadvantaged communities and migrant children in India. The book examines the lack of a social justice framework to cater to children’s needs and wellbeing. It discusses how intersectional location of these children in caste, class, gender, ethnicity, and religious locations shape their ability to access welfare and rights across sectors such as health, education, nutrition, and security. The book puts forth recommendations to ensure better intervention mechanisms to address issues faced by children from all sections of society and paves the way to counter the emerging challenges in future.

This book will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers of education, psychology, sociology, social work, childhood studies, and development studies. It will also be useful for educationalists, sociologists, social psychologists, lay public and those interested in exploring the condition of various marginalized children in India.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032318608
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/27/2025
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Abhimanyu Datta is Lecturer at the District Institute of Education and Training, Sonitpur, Assam. He has completed M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Before joining the current job, he worked as Assistant Professor at MGAHD-TISS Nagaland and as Guest Faculty in the Department of Social Work, Assam (Central) University. As an Early-Stage Researcher under the International Research Staff Exchange Scheme, he worked with the Research team at Coventry University (UK) and Kocaeli University (Turkey) in 2016. He was also a Dalai Lama Fellow (SanFrancisco, USA) and implemented one year Action Project under the fellowship programme during 2014-2015.

Bipin Jojo is Professor and Dean, School of Social Work, at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He was a commonwealth visiting fellow to School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London during 2008-09. He was a visiting professor to University of Tampree, Finland in 2018 and also delivered lectures at University of Bilbao, Spain and Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He served as the chairperson of Centre for Social Justice and Governance during 2006-2012. He also served as the chairperson of International Relation Office at Tata Institute of Social Sciences during 2009-2012.

Table of Contents

1.I  1. Introduction- Abhimanyu Datta, Bipin Jojo 2. How has Covid-19 Pandemic Impacted Undocumented Migrant Children: Locating Precarity and Marginalisation in India- Anindita Chakrabarty, Ananya Chakraborty 3. Labour Migrant’s Children and COVID-19: Children on the ‘Move’- SK Rinchanpam, Ajeet Kumar Pankaj 4. Collapsing dream of Adivasi Parent to educate their children – Narratives from COVID-19 Pandemic- Pallavi V. Xalxo, Praveen Kachhap 5. Education in Pandemic: Challenges faced by the Indian Education System- Ankit Sharma, Rashmita Ray, Asutosh Pradhan 6. Covid-19 and its Impact on Tribal Children’s Access to Education in Odisha- Uttam Sahoo, Moushumi Nayak 7. COVID-19 and Experience of Adivasi Children- Nitin Vasantrao Ganorkar 8. Pandemic and Predicaments on Tribal Children of Northeast India- Richard Kamei, Allanson Wahlang 9. Gender and Space in the Time of COVID-19: Insights from Lucknow City of India- Pooja Verma,Tripti Singh, Soma Sarkar 10. COVID-19 Pandemic and Girl Child: A Study in Sundarban area of West Bengal- Nasmin A Choudhury, Abhimanyu Datta 11. Impact of COVID-19 on Child Health: Preliminary Evidence from Southern State of Kerala, India- Lekha D Bhat, BS Sumalatha, KP Chitra 12. Childhood Obesity and COVID-19 In India- Shilpi Sikha Das 13. Psychosocial Issues Faced by Children Post Re-starting the Schools after the Second wave of COVID-19- Krishan Kumar, Akhilesh Sharma, Nidhi Chauhan, Gayathri Rajan 14. COVID-19 and Children with Intellectual Disability: An Exploration of Coping Among the Parents- Twinkal, Kshama R. Kaushik, Jagdish Jadhav 15. CWSN from Scheduled Caste Community: Issues and Challenges During COVID-19 Pandemic- Sarmila Deb, Abhimanyu Datta 16. Capturing the COVID-19 Experiences of Adolescent Girls of a Slum in Guwahati City: An Exploratory Study- Amrita Saikia, Sandeep Gupta, Deepti Singha. Index