Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, Email: babarwbin@gmail.com
Have migration decisions led to economic growth and structural transformation of livelihood for migrant people? The decision to migrate for many Indians, if not all, is often made without skill for works, knowledge of living conditions and employment prospects in the destination areas. This paper reviews a linkages of phenomenon of migration into city spaces in Indian context which have been consistent with the needs of state frameworks of regulation and humanitarian rights towards fundamental migrant lives. Many a time, short term or seasonal and circular migration takes an advantage of permanent shift to urban areas. Besides, long term migration is expected to happen as a result of economic development assuming large cost of moving to the neo-liberal urban centres. Often, the amorphous explanation of cities? employment acts as an exclusive practice to hook labour forces into geographies of uneven strategy. Consequently, cities? fringed lives have been a new segregated colony with squatter settlements, the worse identity of substandard housing, congestion, overcrowding and absence of basic amenities.
Migration, Fringed lives, Neo-liberal Cities, Amorphous explanation, Exclusive practice
