Migrants are unable to distinguish the public roles of city women from that of rural women. “A decent girl won’t roam around at nine o’clock at night … Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night,” says Mukesh Singh in India’s Daughter314. Physically and metaphorically, these migrants bring ideas and norms of what is accepted and acceptable in the hinterland to the urbanized modern world—where patriarchy and misogyny in thought, word and deed collide with women’s empowerment; as do social order and civic order; old and new; rural and urban…
