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Publications [#270052] of Anirudh Krishna

Journal Articles

1. Krishna, A, Stuck in Place: Investigating Social Mobility in 14 Bangalore Slums, Journal of Development Studies, vol. 49 no. 7 (2012), pp. 1010-1028, Informa UK Limited (revised and resubmitted.) [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/18)

   Abstract:
   This study of 14 Bangalore slum communities, including detailed interviews with 1,481 residents, represents an initial effort to study social mobility in India's largest cities, where opportunity and inequality have both been rising. The results show that slum dwellers have advanced economically, but the extent of improvement is small in the majority of cases, and there are many reversals of fortune. Sons tend to follow fathers or uncles into informal and mostly low-skilled occupations. The majority have lived in slums for many generations. These restricted-entry low-exit situations are brought about in large part on account of multiple institutional disconnections. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.