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Addressing the Housing Needs of Migrant Informal Workers and the Mapping of Policy Landscape

Kabir Arora

Addressing the Housing Needs of Migrant Informal Workers and the Mapping of Policy Landscape - Bangalore NLSIU, Bangalore 2018 - 81p

Contents
List of acronyms;
List of figures;
List of tables;
Introduction;
Research problem ;
Research methodology ;
Research questions ;
Reflection on ontology and epistemology ;
In defence of migration ;
Flooding River Brahmaputra forcing, many to leave and they are yet to be welcomed;
Urban living conditions of migrant workers;
1. Settlement in Banaswadi ;
2. Story of eviction, resettlement and gentrification of the settlement ;
3. The story of the settlement from the perspective of women ;
The concluding remarks on the urban living of migrant waste-pickers ;
Policy imagination on the migrants and their urban living or the lack of it ;
International commitments ;
United Nations- Habitat Processes ;
Right to adequate housing in Habitat I, II, III ;
Public, market and private players, civil society in the discourse ;
National laws and schemes ;
1. Indira Awas Yojna (IAY) ;
2. Rajiv Awas Yojana ;
3. The Housing for All by 2022/Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana ;
4. The Draft Urban Rental Housing Policy 2015 or 2017 ;
5. MNREGA- World’s largest programme to restrict migration;
6. The Interstate migrant workmen’s act ;
7. Many more draft documents- social security code ;
Judicial interventions;
State level schemes and policies ;
1. Initiative of Government of Kerala to provide for housing and medical facilities of the migrant workers;
2. Karnataka Affordable Housing Policy (2016) ;
City level programmes ;
Revised Master Plan for Bengaluru 2031 (Draft) (BDA 2018) ;
Initiatives of the civil society ;
1. The housing initiative of waste-pickers union in Pune;
2. The Housing Rights Bill (NCHR 1992) ;
3. The Karnataka Slum (Development) Bill 2018 (NLSIU 2018) ;
Conclusion ;
Where do we go now? ;
1. Sensitization of public authorities about migrants and their vitality to the city and appreciation of multi-lingual nature of urbanism ;
2. Recognition of rental system for usage of land and temporary housing ;
3. Recognizing the right to migration;
Last remarks ;
Appendix ;
Bibliography.



Housing needs of Migrant workers - Policy
Migrant workers - Bangalore--Migrant workers - Assamese & Bengali Muslims