The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered and intensified existing societal inequalities.
People on the move and residents of urban slums and informal settlements are among some …

Around one billion people who live in slums globally have low quality housing and poor
living conditions (UN, 2020). However, such global estimates do not provide a full …

Abstract Objectives We adopted the Sustainable Livelihood Security (SLS) approach to
assess the living conditions of slum dwellers in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Keeping the …

This paper elucidates different forms and modes by which the two State agencies in
Mumbai, India—the High Court and the municipal government—appropriated the human …

Abstract Based on the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) Multiple Indicator
Survey (MIS) data of 2020–2021, the present study has been carried out to investigate …

Why does a slum community mobilize differently around different public services? I use
qualitative data derived from ethnographic fieldwork in four urban slum communities in …

Inadequate water access is central to the experience of urban inequality across low-and
middle-income countries and leads to adverse health and social outcomes. Previous …

In India, 59% of urban slums are “non-notified” or lack legal recognition by the government.
We use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey spanning …

Mumbai's informal settlements have a long history of being denied formal access to water.
While previous research has shown how settlers barely manage to survive by extracting …

Internal migration, nearly four times more than the migration across national boundaries,
accounts for the largest human movements in the world. In context of agrarian distress …