ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on particular aspects of home and family which are crucial to everyday life in the squatter home yet remain less visible in public policy and debate. It examines issues that are salient in Shazia's case the oppositional construction between morality and a rule of law, family and state, city and slum within this home. It looks for the processes through which the locations of gendered bodies are normalized within spaces of the home and outside and how this normalization then reinforces the violence of law. Thus the notion of legitimate domesticities oscillates between morality and rule of law, between subjective agencies and state prescribed forms of home and family. The chapter also discusses the how the squatter home occupies the spaces between morality and rule of law, development and pathology, empowerment and marginalization, misogyny and gendered subversion. The Delhi employment data reflects how these closures had gendered effects on men in low-paid casual or informal work.
