Components of Urban Social:
1. Caste
2. Women and crime
3. Resource crisis
4. Job characteristics

Adyar slum
95% of the slum are Dalits and rest 5% are Muslims. Since there is no dominant caste, there is no form of discrimination in the slum. But, they face certain problems finding work.

Kannagi Nagar & Errial Nagar
Mostly SCs, only form of discrimination they faced was during resettlement.

Kannagi Nagar
How is the problem of alcoholism leading to crime against women at home.
Petty thefts; children and youngsters are the main accused.

Errial Nagar
Crime against women is on the streets.
Gang rivalry.

Adyar slum
Insurgent citizens and their politics of stealth: How to get by with no or little help from the government.
Issues: Water, electricity and other basic necessities.

Errial Nagar & Kannagi Nagar
Failures of resettlement
Dearth of maintenance
Class segregation

1. Informal jobs, unorganised labour and lack of benefits.
2. Self-employment and displacement.
3. Problems of access to higher education and ghettoised identities.

The slums and resettlement colonies spoken about may or may not be legal but the challenges faced by its residents are similar. They vary from caste issues to resource crisis.But when they are displaced into a formal resettlement, their livelihoods are jeopardised.