India's migrant workers face hostility in Mumbai

In India's crowded and burdened cities such as Mumbai, local politicians have rekindled antimigrant attitudes by trying to restrict labor licenses to those who can speak a local language. Most migrant workers cannot.

Rakeshkumar Das fears that nativist laws will end his longtime job as a Mumbai cabdriver. Like most migrant workers here, he cannot speak the local language, Marathi. His family lives 36 hours away by train.

Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff

Source: csmonitor.com/