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Co-Designing Urban Play Spaces to Improve Migrant Children’s Wellbeing

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posted on 2024-09-05, 21:05 authored by Anandini Dar, Divya Chopra
Between 2001 and 2011, India’s urban population increased from almost 28 per cent to just over 31 per cent. Almost 139 million people migrated to cities (mainly Delhi and Mumbai), often bringing their children with them. Most live in poverty in informal settlements that lack basic infrastructure and services. Their children are often out of school and have no safe spaces to play. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), ratified by India in 1989, recognises children’s right to play as fundamental to their social, emotional, and physical wellbeing. Urban planners need to involve children in co-designing better neighbourhoods that accommodate children’s right to play.

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Economic and Social Research Council (Grant Ref ES/R011125/1)

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Institute of Development Studies

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Dar, A. and Chopra, D. (2022) 'Co-Designing Urban Play Spaces to Improve Migrant Children’s Wellbeing', IDS Policy Briefing 199, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2022.044

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IDS Policy Briefing 199

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Institute of Development Studies

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India

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1479-974X

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