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I Don’t Have the Option to Rent a House : How Migrant Workers Differ From the Urban Poor The mass exodus of migrant workers from cities after the nationwide lockdown has amplified the housing crisis for migrant workers in cities. Representative image of a slum in NCR. Photo: Reuters Urban06/Mar/2021 ‘Low-income migrants’ in cities have always subsumed under the blanket, but arguably vague, term ‘urban poor’. This categorisation overlooks the mobility dimension of migrant workers’ lives where they are constantly moving between places in search of work, following capital. The government’s own estimates also indicate that with each passing year, the rates of migration in India are increasing.

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