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SUMMARY:City Seminar - Dr Sunil Kumar\, LSE
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DESCRIPTION:*Internal Migrant Workers and Construction Labour-Camps: The A
 rchitecture of Discipline and Control in Chennai\, Tamil Nadu\, India*\n\n
 Sunil Kumar\, Department of Social Policy\, London School of Economics and
  Political Science\n\nLabour camps housing internal migrant construction w
 orkers can be conceptualised as ‘heterotopian’ spaces\, following Fouc
 ault. I argue that they are one point in a continuum of\nthe architecture 
 of discipline and control. Interventions to address the exploitative natur
 e of the working and living conditions in labour camps are complex\, not l
 east because: (i) construction moves in space and time\; and (ii) labour m
 oves\, in and out of a given project\, depending on skill requirements\; a
 nd (iii) labour camps make their residents invisible and hard-to-access. I
 n the Indian context\, this complexity increases due to the regional and l
 inguistic diversity of the migrant labour force. Using the Urbanisation-Co
 nstruction-Migration (UCM) Nexus in South Asia (Kumar and Fernandez\, 2016
 )\, I use a Foucauldian lens to argue that the ‘conundrum of collective 
 action’ emerges from an extended architecture of control and discipline:
  (i) pre-construction control through cash-for-work advances\; (ii)\,\nin-
 construction labour camp control and discipline through a combination of e
 nclosure\, panopticon and appeasement\; and (iii) post-construction indebt
 edness. Collective action\nspaces are thus squeezed out of existence.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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