Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) by Svati P. Shah

Author:Svati P. Shah [Shah, Svati P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780822376514
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2014-07-23T00:00:00+00:00

During the time I spent with women on this street, it became evident that “needing their help” could refer to any number of situations on this street that women needed to manage. Many of these situations were brought about by local merchants and police. Police were often aided by the merchants, as complaints from shopkeepers about sex workers pulling down the neighborhood's status, and therefore its commercial viability, enhanced the police's ability to carry out sweeps and to use violence or the threat of violence more freely as they made arrests, which resulted in each woman paying a fine of 1,200 rupees per arrest.

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