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The spatial reproduction of urban poverty [1]

How do mass slum resettlement programmes in expanding megacities contribute to the reproduction of urban poverty? Chennai's premier resettlement colony, Kannagi Nagar, housing slum-dwellers evicted from the city since 2000 has integrated itself into the industrial, commercial and software economies of the information technology corridor on unfavourable terms, swelling the supply of unskilled casual workers for local firms.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2012
Karen Coelho [2], T Venkat [3], R Chandrika [4]
Economic and Political Weekly [5]
47
47-48
53-63
Tags:
Poverty [6], Urbanisation [7], Urban Habitat [8], Slums [9], Chennai (T) [10], Tamil Nadu [11], Unemployment [12], Statistics [13], Workers [14], Informal Sector [15], Displacement [16], Relocation [17], Slum Demolition [18], Industrial Workers [19]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/slums
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/chennai-t
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tamil-nadu
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[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/workers
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/informal-sector
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/displacement
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/relocation
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/slum-demolition
[19] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/industrial-workers