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Why don’t we see the women? The untold story of Covid-19 migration -Ipsita Sapra

-The Indian Express

Will this pandemic change women migrant's relationship with cities? Will it limit the geographies and spatial range that women choose to explore?

If migration had a face, would it be a male one?

Think about the picture of migrants in the Bandra station or at Delhi Bus Stand? Why weren’t there any women in the frame? This article is an attempt to steer the gaze to the women question in migration in the wake of the COVID 19 situation.

Who is a quintessential migrant?

What about the women who migrate?

Women migrate in family units that work together. Single women work as live-in domestic help in the metropolis of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai. Women in the service economy work in salons and beauty parlours. Women work in restaurants as waitresses and usherettes. Women work as assistants in large stores.

One set of women are the wives. The accompanists. The cooks, the cleaners, and the co-workers in construction sites or family units working in brick-kilns. The piece-rate worker at the lowest rung of a global supply chain. The silently accompanying ‘other’ in an overwhelmingly male phenomenon of mobility. These are women who are still captured in the camera lens as walking with their husbands and children.

However, the single women migrants while being an ubiquitous part of our daily existence are completely invisible from the media gaze.

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