Pavement dwellers

Materials include cloth, corrugated iron, cardboard, wood, plastic, and sometimes also bricks or cement.

Pavement dwellers migrate to Mumbai hoping to capitalize on the wealth and job opportunities that the city offers.

They are typically forward-thinking, seeking to build lives in the city that give the next generation better opportunities than would have been possible in the village.

With the aid of SPARC, the rights of Mumbai's pavement dwellers were recognised and coexistence was successfully negotiated.

[7] Following the eviction of the Calais Jungle in 2016, African migrants began living on the pavements of Paris.