Slum-like human settlements are found in almost every town in Kerala, India especially in coastal areas like Thiruvananthapuram which is one of the cities with most true characteristics as of any other slum of metropolitan city. In this book an attempt is made to understand the dynamics of low human development of slums over generations in two Thiruvananthapuram slums taking the cases of Bartonhill Colony and Thekkumudu Bund Colony. The study probed empirically into the question whether there has been an upward socio-economic mobility and identifies the key drivers of upward/downward mobility...