Exploring the Impact of a Pandemic on Lives and Livelihoods of Low-Income Migrant Workers: Ethnographic Reflections from Worker Settlements in Kapashera, National Capital Region of Delhi, India

Life and Challenges in Kapashera

Figure 1.1. Migrant labourers walking towards their workplaces. Photograph by Jignesh Mistry

Figure 1.2. Housing in Kapashera. Photograph by Jignesh Mistry

Figure 1.3. A garment stitching unit at Kapashera. Photo by Shubhangi Derhgawen.

Figure 1.4. Slum-like settlements in Kapashera. Photograph by Jignesh Mistry.

Figure 1.5. Dailywage women workers at “labour chowk”, Udyog Vihar Phase-1, Gurugram. Photo by Jignesh Mistry.

Figure 1.6. Workers post lockdown regulations at Udyog Vihar, Kapashera Border, Gurugram. Photo by Jignesh Mistry.

Figure 1.7. Staff requirement posters and banners at Udyog Vihar, Kapashera Border, Gurugram. Photo by Jignesh Mistry.

Figure 1.8. A women washing clothes at a plot in Kapashera. Photo by Jignesh Mistry.

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