The paper firstly discusses briefly the urbanization trajectories of both the countries and urban policy regimes. This is the content of section 2. It then moves on to discussing the housing policies in both the countries and the changes therein, drawing implications of these on the housing of the migrants, in section 3. Section 4 discusses the brief methodology and findings from the study of migrant workers’ housing in Dungguan in China. Section 5 does the same for Surat in India. Last section draws conclusions on the implications of the study on urban studies in both the countries and also for policy purposes in both the countries.
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