A city, any city, can be understood as a product of politics and economics, and organizations and people yet accounts of the post-displacement experiences of marginalized communities are scarce, particularly for a gendered understanding of resettlement activities.

In this book, Ramya Ramanath explores the pre- to post-resettlement experiences of women in one of the largest urban slum resettlement sites in Mumbai. Using a narrative approach and combining a wealth of data from women of different ages, caste, ethnicity, religion, education, marital, residential, and employment status...