For instance, the Public Distribution System of India provides subsidised food for people living below the poverty line. In order to access this a Ration Card must be shown, which is registered on the place of residence. Changing the address of residence is complicated and not all migrants are able to navigate, sometimes due to illiteracy, within the governmental structures. Thus, this cannot be used at the place of …show more content…
Many marginalised migrants end up working in the unofficial and informal sector. According to the estimate of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (2009), between 94% and the 98% of the poor and vulnerable work in the informal sector. The Commission identifies migrants as being at the bottom of the working class, the most disadvantaged. Informal labourers do not benefit from laws directed at improving pay and conditions of work, when they still they have weak bargaining power. Nevertheless governments and employers push for further informalisation and flexibilisation of labour (Lerche,