Living on the Edge: Interrogating Migrant Labourer Lives of Bengaluru/Bangalore.
This paper proposes to create a discourse of migrant labourers in the city of Bengaluru/Bangalore, especially during the current period of crisis ensued by COVID-19 pandemic. Despite being an essential part of the informal sector economy these workers are often rendered invisible from the urban soci...
| Publicado en: | Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 12; no. 5; pp. 1 - 9 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=147570786&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 147570786 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 09752935 BGFH jtl: Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities issn: 09752935 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2020 vid: 12 iid: 5 pid: 68366 pub: Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities artinfo: ui: 147570786 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n5.rioc1s30n3 ppf: 1 ppct: 8 formats: tig: atl: Living on the Edge: Interrogating Migrant Labourer Lives of Bengaluru/Bangalore. aug: au: T. S., Navami affil: PhD Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur su: Migrant labor COVID-19 pandemic Social conditions in India sug: subj: Migrant labor COVID-19 pandemic Social conditions in India keyword: COVID-19 Migrant labourers Space the Right to the City ab: This paper proposes to create a discourse of migrant labourers in the city of Bengaluru/Bangalore, especially during the current period of crisis ensued by COVID-19 pandemic. Despite being an essential part of the informal sector economy these workers are often rendered invisible from the urban social, cultural and political spaces of this global city. The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development (Habitat III), held in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016 declared the New Urban Agenda (NUA) -- that was adopted as the guideline for urban development for the next twenty years -- with the vision of 'cities for all'. But in reality, for their regional, linguistic, cultural, class and caste differences, the migrant labourers in the city are marginalized from the mainstream urban scene. The paper investigates the historiography of the migrant labourers in the city to interrogate the space they occupy in Bengaluru/Bangalore. Some of the important questions the paper attempts to grapple with are also about their fight for survival amidst the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the relief measure responses from the state. Evidences show, the immigrant labourers are perceived as the city's necessary 'Other' who are needed to build the city but barely finds any representation in the planning grids of urban architects. Their direct experiences and negotiations with 'the lived city', available from news archives and other secondary sources, will be interrogated through the lens of 'the Right to the City', a concept introduced by Henri Lefebvre. The paper attempts to explore if they have any agency to assert their rights to the city and become a meaningful stakeholder in the democratic control over Bengaluru/Bangalore. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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