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Pratiques résidentielles et impact sur les dynamiques et la segmentation de grandes métropoles : étude des formes de mobilité spatiale des populations de Bogota et de Delhi : rapport intermédiaire n° 2
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Dupont, Véronique Dureau, Françoise Barbary, Olivier Hoyos, M. Rizo Lelièvre, Éva Lulle, Thierry Milbert, Isabelle Sidhu, Manavjeet Singh |
| Copyright Year | 1996 |
| Abstract | Old Delhi, the historica1 core of the capital city, is characterised by extremely high population densities combined with a remarkable concentration of commercial and manufacturing establishments. While a process of population deconcentration from the old and deteriorating housing stock is at work, economic activiLies have on the other hand proliferated. This has attracted a floating populaLion of male migrant workers, most of them unskilled, and whose residential integration is extremely precarious. Surveys conducted with a sample of shelterless persons in the Old City allowed us to examine their residential and related economic practices and to contribute to the discussion on the social and economic marginality of the houseless population. The breaking off from the traditional basic social institution, the family, applies only to a limited section of the houseless people, those who left their home following acute familial tensions, especially children. Although they live alone in Delhi, the majority of the houseless migrants main tain regular relationships with their family in their native place, which remains their pole of reference. The houseless population of Old Delhi fOnTIS also an integral part of the metropolitan labour force, which, as per income criteria, seems to stay above the poverty line. Yet, the lack of guarantee of regular income constitutes a general concern. On the other hand, saving capacity, remittances, plans of future invesunent, represem encouraging indicators of the economic potential of a notable share of the houseless. Finally, the large variety of individual situations encountered would make it irrelevant to consider the houseless as a single category of 'urban poor', and even more to qualify them indistinctly as 'the poorest of the urban poor'. Although tinancial constraints form the background of the shelterless situation, the logic of the residential practices of the pavement dwellers and night shelters' inmates should not be underslOod only as the consequence of a process of exclusion from access ta a dwelling. One should also appreciate the economic rationales of individual migrants who try ta maximise remittances to their family in the village, by cutting their housing and transport expenses: priority is hence given to a location near the workplace or the labour market. In addition, for casual Jabourers, proximity hetween the sleeping place and the source of employment opportunities often increases their probability of getting daily work. Thus the condition of the houseless has to he considered in relation to their needs and priorities. This is a prerequisite with a view ta the formulation of adequate housing policies. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers09-08/010008236.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
