Finding a concrete utopia in the dystopia of a ‘sub-city’

Busby, Selina

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“…Most people living in Dharavi work within it (Busby, 2017). There are an estimated 5,000 small businesses and 15,000 single-room factories, as well as the home cum workplaces of potters, tanners, weavers, tailors, and soap makers (Varanasi, 2014).…”

Section: A City Within a Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dharavi functions as a city within a city in terms of the blending of residential and commercial units that distinguish it from other slums and a productivity of $500 million in annual exports (Echanove and Srivastava, 2016). It is alternately perceived as a squalid eyesore or romanticized as a place where enterprise, creativity, and “real” community feelings are extolled (Busby, 2017; Narasimha, 2017). Its evolution from 1884 when it was founded on a marshy stretch of land on the periphery of Mumbai is the result of rural migrants looking for work and pouring into Dharavi (Narasimha, 2017; Weinstein, 2014).…”

Section: A City Within a Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Many realities, one world: Dharavi, stranded migrants, and the lockdown in India

Saldanha

2021

Qualitative Social Work

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In India a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID has stranded 600 million internal migrants, laborers who move within the country from its underdeveloped regions to cities and production hubs. My own experience of the pandemic in Michigan has prompted reflections on links between past experiences with an educational project for children in a slum in Mumbai and the situation of stranded migrants in India today. Although the pandemic knows no boundaries, some groups are disproportionately impacted and experience greater vulnerabilities. But while some stories are foregrounded, the struggles of female migrants are nearly invisible. Although “displaced” from India presently, I juxtapose earlier tacit assumptions related to Dharavi’s children with the present reality of the lockdown where gender is invisible.

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Section: A City Within a Citymentioning

confidence: 99%