Area of Interest Title
reseach question / issue research method
Construction workers housing in
india
CASE STUDY MIGRANT
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS’
HOUSING IN AHMEDABAD:
SEASONAL LABOUR
MIGRATION, TRANSLOCAL
LIVES, AND URBAN
1 GOVERNANCE
Quality of life among migrant
construction workers in
Bangalore city: A cross‑sectional Journal of Family Medicine and
2 study
Housing of Urban Migrants in
3 India and China
Migrant Construction Workers
and Question of Inclusiveness: A Institute of Social and
4 Case Study of Bengaluru City
MIGRATING OUT OF
POVERTY? A STUDYOF
MIGRANT CONSTRUCTION
5 SECTOR WORKERS IN INDIA
IN SEARCH OF HOME A Study
on Migrant Workers’ Access to
6 Housing and Land
Housing for Construction
Workers in Ahmedabad, India: Is
it possible to design sufficent
housing for construction
7 workers?
Type Author(s) Introduction Literature Review
research outcome Limitations / Gap Relevance
Renu Desai, Sachi the lived experiences and practices
Sanghavi of seasonal migrants who come
from the tribal borderlands of
eastern Gujarat, southern Case study through one is the multilocal
Rajasthan, and western Madhya and translocal lens; the other is the Paper discusses implication of its good data source for
Pradesh to work as construction urban governance lens vis-à-vis informal findings on urban policies and existing scenario but is
University paper labourers in the city of Ahmedabad. housing planning pre-pandemic
Migrant construction workers had
A cross‑sectional study was done interviewed 400 workers using poor physical, social, and
to assess Quality of Life among questionnaire containing psychological QoL,
migrant construction workers in sociodemographic profile and recommendations to improve the data on Quality of life
Primary Care Shaik Zabeer Bangalore. WHOQOLBREF scale. same made of the workers
Darshani Mahadevia, a comparative research on housing
Xuming Yuan conditions and mobility of the
migrants in urban areas in China
and India, based on data collected identifying the housing sub-
from one city each in each markets accessed by the
country—Surat in India and studying the living conditions of the migrants in both the cities and the
Dongguan in China migrants in both the cities process of access to the same,
S Manasi findings manly focus on
Study of Housing scenarios of shortcomings of existing policies
migrant workers ans a review of in their implementation and the policy review and post
Economic Change existing policies, 2021 effects of the pandemic pandemic data
conducting detailed personal interviews,
based on a structured questionnaire, with
50 workers from different sites
Study of Employement scenarios of representing each of the three types of detailed survey and in
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN Ravi Srivastava Rajib migrant workers and a review of construction activities mentioned earlier Identifying issues on existing depth undestanding of
DEVELOPMENT Sutradhar existing policies, 2016 (150 workers in all) policies of 2016 the Sector
primary research for this study via
telephonic interviews administered to a
sample size of 248 people, from 8 to 25
August 2020. A second round of
questions was administered to 105
people from the first sample, from 7 to 29 important trends highlighting the
document the living conditions of September 2020, in order to better importance of equal access to
migrant workers, particularly their understand issues of access to land and adequate housing and land, in
access to housing and land in housing in villages of the interviewees. order to guarantee everyone’s
Delhi—where they lived—and in The sample consisted of migrant workers right to an adequate standard of
their villages as well as the who had returned to their villages from living and to prevent human rights Post pandemic data
Housing and Land challenges faced by them during the National Capital Territory of Delhi violations of low-income collected during the
working paper, Rights network the COVID-19 crisis. during the lockdown communities,c lockdown
Hannah Broatch examines possible
project documents a struggle to designed a network of open solutions to the issue
employ architecture as a means of documented the materials and spatial spaces and housing units that by drawing up on the
achieving a desired standard of configurations used in construction anticipates and makes room for methods used by the
Masters thesis dignity for the construction workers. workers’ labour colonies, the adaptation. workers in their homes