Rohini was born in Chalisgaon, Maharastra but shortly thereafter her family moved to a construction site in Mumbai. She has been living on construction sites for as long as she can remember as the last three generations of her family have all been construction workers! For her, migration meant constant grappling with the feeling of […]
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Looking beyond aspiration and opportunity rhetoric in rural-urban migration
Mukta Naik on December 18th, 2014
Regardless of economic class or place of origin, migration is synonymous with opportunity. The question of whether migration is something people are forced into or whether is a choice people make has intrigued researchers and academics; in my opinion, it isn’t an either/or situation.
Posted in Livelihoods, Migration and Development 
Tags: cities, housing, migration, urban 
No Comments »Expanding Social spaces for women: Arpita Banerjee (NIUA)
Aritra Chakrabarty on December 17th, 2014
What does Migration mean? Let us start from the entry point of what migration mean to women. It is well documented in numerous migration literatures that migration is mainly a response to the work/job opportunities available in the new place (Basu 2001; Dayal and Karan 2003) and it has enhanced the economic and the social […]
