Changing Patterns of Migration in India: A Perspective on Urban Exclusion

Kundu, Amitabh; Saraswati, Lopamudra Ray

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“…These migrants and their families draw part-subsistence from the rural areas so that the users of labour do not have to provide them with the full cost of subsistence. The increasing cost of urban space and housing creates a model of exclusionary urbanisation (Kundu, 2009; Kundu & Saraswati, 2016). Apart from resident labour, which comprises both long-term permanent migrants and long-term circular migrants, growth centres have been able to utilise a pool of commuting and short-term circular migrants from rural areas who work, as and when required, in urban areas.…”

Section: Circular Migration Informality and Precarious Workmentioning

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Migration, Informality and the Growing Precarity of Work

Srivastava

2022

Social Change

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We view the impact of three decades of rapid growth and structural change in India on the lives of the working poor in terms of the growing precarity of work. The COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown in 2020 and the ensuing crisis exposed the vulnerability of informal workers, particularly circular migrants, and resulted in the largest ever urban exodus of migrants. The crisis was a result of changes that had systematically increased the magnitude and scope of informal employment in the industrial and service sectors, and created a cheap, flexible and pliable workforce. Circular migrants, a product of uneven regional development, form an ever-growing segment of this flexible, informal workforce. Largely excluded from urban citizenship and civic rights, they lead a precarious existence, oscillating between town and country, and carrying out tasks that preserve gender and social hierarchies.

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Section: Circular Migration Informality and Precarious Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration, Informality and the Growing Precarity of Work

Srivastava

2022

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“…Much like outgrowths, census towns are legally rural settlements, but they are designated as urban for the purposes of an upcoming census and grouped with statutory urban areas in the official post-census tabulations. The census-town designation emerges in the course of discussions between census authorities and state government officials in the lead-up to each new census [12][13][14]. There are specific demographic and socioeconomic criteria that are meant to guide the discussions, but these criteria are evaluated on the basis of data gathered in the previous census, a practice that leaves ample room for misunderstandings of local trends and variations in judgement [14].…”

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Urbanization in India: Population and Urban Classification Grids for 2011

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Montgomery

Engin

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India is the world’s most populous country, yet also one of the least urban. It has long been known that India’s official estimates of urban percentages conflict with estimates derived from alternative conceptions of urbanization. To date, however, the detailed spatial and settlement boundary data needed to analyze and reconcile these differences have not been available. This paper presents gridded estimates of population at a resolution of 1 km along with two spatial renderings of urban areas—one based on the official tabulations of population and settlement types (i.e., statutory towns, outgrowths, and census towns) and the other on remotely-sensed measures of built-up land derived from the Global Human Settlement Layer. We also cross-classified the census data and the remotely-sensed data to construct a hybrid representation of the continuum of urban settlement. In their spatial detail, these materials go well beyond what has previously been available in the public domain, and thereby provide an empirical basis for comparison among competing conceptual models of urbanization.

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Periurban Water: Recognizing the Margins for Sustainable Urban Water Futures

Chakraborty¹

2021

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Changing Patterns of Migration in India: A Perspective on Urban Exclusion

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Migration, Informality and the Growing Precarity of Work

Migration, Informality and the Growing Precarity of Work

Urbanization in India: Population and Urban Classification Grids for 2011

Periurban Water: Recognizing the Margins for Sustainable Urban Water Futures

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