Within activist circles, global feminist discourse, and academic conversations surrounding gender and agency, sex work has often been framed as an exceptional space of disempowerment, trafficking, and exploitation. Svati P. Shah’s beautifully engaged ethnography, Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai, challenges this narrative by attending to the material landscape of rural labor migration to Mumbai. In doing so, the text provides a lens through which to ask questions about labor migration, material survival, and the criminalization of marginalized subjects.