Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness

by Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil

Book Overview

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization

As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691236089
• ISBN13: 9780691236087
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"