Struggles of housing and livelihoods: Displaced urban settlers in a peripheral industrial region of Delhi
By: Chaudhary, Tanya
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BookPublisher: Urban India Description: 39(2), Jul-Dec, 2020: p. 99-115.Subject(s): Housing, industrial labour, Delhi, urban planning, migration
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Urban IndiaSummary: The vast typology of housing in the lexicon of urban planning is not only suggestive of various forms of calibrated illegalities but also reflects upon the differential citizenship in megacities of the global south. The peripheral region called Narela in the north of Delhi , at a distance of approximately 40 km from the core, witnessed a baste resettlement project accompanied by industrial relocation. Now industrial migrate workers constitute a major part of the population of this region. This paper explores different sides of the housing infrastructure in the industrial region, arguing that housing is a realm where migrate workers in urban areas are constantly arranging, forging and organ sing their relations of social reproduction which affects reactions of production in informal employment. Hence the failure of supplementing housing needs to the Economically Weaker section (EWS), as suggested in master plans leads to a destruction of the social lives of industrial workers and restricts the ovenues of labour response. The ways in which housing infrastructure is intertwined with employment conditions reflect the experiences of dystopia amongst workers, hence opening a debate regarding the importance of providing affordable housing for workers along with in situ upgradation of bastes as part of a neo-liberal regime of development – Reproduced
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The vast typology of housing in the lexicon of urban planning is not only suggestive of various forms of calibrated illegalities but also reflects upon the differential citizenship in megacities of the global south. The peripheral region called Narela in the north of Delhi , at a distance of approximately 40 km from the core, witnessed a baste resettlement project accompanied by industrial relocation. Now industrial migrate workers constitute a major part of the population of this region. This paper explores different sides of the housing infrastructure in the industrial region, arguing that housing is a realm where migrate workers in urban areas are constantly arranging, forging and organ sing their relations of social reproduction which affects reactions of production in informal employment. Hence the failure of supplementing housing needs to the Economically Weaker section (EWS), as suggested in master plans leads to a destruction of the social lives of industrial workers and restricts the ovenues of labour response. The ways in which housing infrastructure is intertwined with employment conditions reflect the experiences of dystopia amongst workers, hence opening a debate regarding the importance of providing affordable housing for workers along with in situ upgradation of bastes as part of a neo-liberal regime of development – Reproduced
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