{"title":"Whose property is this? Exploring dynamics between property relations, housing precarity, and working conditions in Pune's red-light district, India.","authors":"Sutapa Majumdar","doi":"10.1080/09584935.2025.2494612","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pune's red-light area, the second largest red-light area in Maharashtra after Mumbai and houses close to five thousand cis female sex workers from India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The denial of housing, a basic human right, forces women into unsafe practices, affecting their livelihood and well-being. Using survey data and interviews, the paper examines the precarious living conditions of the sex workers, access to housing and property, tenancy arrangements and political economy of the business. Further the paper discusses how sex workers in Budhwar Peth creatively manage and profit from their living spaces despite facing legal challenges in securing formal property rights. The paper suggests that the housing rights is essential for sex workers for their safety, legal protection, economic stability and overall wellbeing.</p>","PeriodicalId":45569,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary South Asia","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12312769/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Contemporary South Asia","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2025.2494612","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"AREA STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Pune's red-light area, the second largest red-light area in Maharashtra after Mumbai and houses close to five thousand cis female sex workers from India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The denial of housing, a basic human right, forces women into unsafe practices, affecting their livelihood and well-being. Using survey data and interviews, the paper examines the precarious living conditions of the sex workers, access to housing and property, tenancy arrangements and political economy of the business. Further the paper discusses how sex workers in Budhwar Peth creatively manage and profit from their living spaces despite facing legal challenges in securing formal property rights. The paper suggests that the housing rights is essential for sex workers for their safety, legal protection, economic stability and overall wellbeing.
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The countries of South Asia - Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - are internally diverse and part of global flows of people, goods and ideas. Contemporary South Asia seeks to address the issues of the region by presenting research and analysis which is both cross-regional and multi-disciplinary. The journal encourages the development of new perspectives on the study of South Asia from across the arts and social sciences disciplines. We also welcome contributions to pan-regional and inter-disciplinary analysis. Our aim is to create a vibrant research space to explore the multidimensional issues of concern to scholars working on South Asia and South Asian diasporas in the postcolonial era.
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