This chapter presents the case study of Jhuggi Mokhampura, a low-income housing scheme in Amritsar (India) that exemplifies the exclusion of already marginalized communities through the implementation of a resettlement project. Taking an “access versus rights approach”, the case study explores to what extent migrant jhuggi communities can benefit from low-income housing and services provided by the municipality and the underlying power relations between the different actors involved. The “access analysis” has been operationalized by looking at everyday practices, power resources and “city\scapes” (i.e., cognitive maps representing the urban imaginaries of residents about how they situate themselves in, and relate with, the urban space). The case study illustrates how, often detached from ground realities, low-income housing programs aiming at improving the lives of the urban poor frequently end up shaping urban landscapes and livelihoods in a way that create sites of conflict and contestation and (re-)produce social exclusions.

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Seeing the City from Below: Rethinking Marginalization in Amritsar through Access Theory and a ‘City\Scapes’ Approach

  • Helena Cermeño

摘要

This chapter presents the case study of Jhuggi Mokhampura, a low-income housing scheme in Amritsar (India) that exemplifies the exclusion of already marginalized communities through the implementation of a resettlement project. Taking an “access versus rights approach”, the case study explores to what extent migrant jhuggi communities can benefit from low-income housing and services provided by the municipality and the underlying power relations between the different actors involved. The “access analysis” has been operationalized by looking at everyday practices, power resources and “city\scapes” (i.e., cognitive maps representing the urban imaginaries of residents about how they situate themselves in, and relate with, the urban space). The case study illustrates how, often detached from ground realities, low-income housing programs aiming at improving the lives of the urban poor frequently end up shaping urban landscapes and livelihoods in a way that create sites of conflict and contestation and (re-)produce social exclusions.