Twenty-two year old Pooja is a mother of two young children. She works as a manual labourer at a construction site in Greater Noida, a hub of emerging high-rise townships on the outskirts of New Delhi. Pooja’s story reflects the hardships faced by millions of rural migrants of India who travel to cities in search of better jobs and wages. After being married at the young age of 19, Pooja migrated from her home town in rural Bihar to India’s capital because the agricultural in