ABSTRACT
Megacities will continue to play an increasingly dominant role in the world economy as the drivers of wealth and employment. This chapter discusses the evolution of Delhi as a growing megacity which is also exclusionary, bridging earlier research on slum policy with findings from our research on the current approach to informality. One mixed-methods study on ten drain-adjacent slums reveals that the persistent, long-term lack of infrastructure and service provision in slums imbues them with a temporal impermanence or transience, as well as marking them as spaces of dirt and of having no value. Finally, some case studies are presented that link the successful integration of immigrant entrepreneurs to the concept of community resilience and discuss the applicability of these studies to the Arctic context. The chapter concludes with suggestions for future research on immigrant entrepreneurship and recommendations for policymakers in the Arctic.
