Journal of Sociology and Social Work

Living Conditions of Migrant Service Workers In Urban India. (Case Study of Chandigarh)
Dr. Seepana Prakasam

Abstract
This paper is an attempt to high light the working and living conditions of personal service providers working on the streets of the city Chandigarh. The growing landlessness, underemployment forced distress migration of economically and socially backward sections of the society towards urban areas. Among the urban poor some of them belongs to occupational castes migrated from rural areas due to near disappearance of Jajmani system. These migrants working as self employed own account workers by rendering services on the road side at cheaper rates to the urban middle class and poor, but in addition to facing indecent working conditions, they undergoes multidimensional intensive deprivations and vulnerabilities.

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