Drawing on ethnographic work with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), a grassroots sex worker organisation in Sonagachi, the iconic red-light district in Kolkata, India, this paper explores the politics of the detritus generated by raids as a form of state violence. While the current literature mainly focuses on its institutional ramifications, this article explores the significance of the raid in its immediate relation to the brothel as a home and a space to collectivise for labour rights. Drawing on atyachar (oppression), the Bengali word sex workers use to depict the violence of raids, I argue that they experience the raid not as a spectacle, but as an ordinary form of violence in contrast to their extraordinary experience of return to rebuild their lives. Return signals both a reclamation of the detritus as well as subversion of the state’s attempt to undermine DMSC’s labour movement.

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突袭与返还：性工作运动，警察的压迫以及印度索纳加奇的平民政治

借助与印度加尔各答标志性红灯区索纳加奇市的基层性工作者组织Durbar Mahila Samanwaya委员会（DMSC）进行的人种学研究，本文探讨了突袭以国家暴力形式造成的破坏物的政治。尽管当前的文献主要关注其制度上的分歧，但本文探讨了突袭与妓院作为家庭和集体化劳动权空间的直接关系的重要性。我用孟加拉语（性压迫）来描写性工作者用来描述突袭的暴力行为，我认为他们经历的突袭不是奇观，而是一种普通的暴力形式，与他们返回重建家园的非凡经历形成对比。生活。