The plumbers of Delhi: Migration, plebeian sociality and citizenship in an occupational community
Funding period: 6 June 2016 – 5 June 2019
Type of funding:
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Dr. Sanjeev Routray is a sociologist-anthropologist, critical urbanist, and migration specialist of South Asia and beyond. He is the author of The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi (to be published by Stanford University Press in July 2022). In this book, he examines how the urban poor incrementally stake their claims to a home and life in Delhi. Based on his USF funded research, he is currently writing his second book tentatively titled The Plumbers of Delhi: Migration, Caste Sociality, and Citizenship in an Occupational Community. His second book examines the mechanisms of caste sociality in shaping migration histories, urban labor market outcomes, community formations in cities, and rural-urban citizenship struggles among communities of plumbers in Delhi, India, and the Middle East.
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As part of his USF Fellowship, Dr Routray also received a USF Knowledge Mobilisation Award in November 2021: Organizing plumbers in Delhi: navigating the building and other construction workers welfare board and labour court.