Segregation along religious lines is expected to deepen after clashes between Muslims and Hindus
Rukhsar, a Muslim woman who fled her home along with her family after Hindu-Muslim clashes triggered by a new citizenship law, reacts as she takes shelter in a relief camp in New Delhi, India, on March 3 2020. Picture: REUTERS/ANUSHREE FADNAVIS
“We generally see greater ghettoisation in a city after a riot because of fear and insecurity, with city authorities themselves sometimes reorganising neighbourhoods that entrench that segregation,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Delhi has long drawn migrants from neighbouring states, who often live in informal settlements because of high rents.
“The Muslim poor especially ... choose to live in all-Muslim neighbourhoods because they feel insecure,” she said on the sidelines of a land conference in Delhi.
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