one of the women aged who was from bishkek told a story in her interview about how she was harassed by kyrgyz males whom she did not know when she rode in an unregistered taxi with an uzbek driver in addition she told another story about her kyrgyz female coworker who was a waitress in a cafe her coworker had been chased by kyrgyz males because she was in a romantic relationship with an uzbek cook the woman reflected upon the influence that these episodes had on her choices she said that now she would not consider having any relationship with a nonkyrgyz male although she would like to out of fear of harassment by such groups as the patriots of kyrgyzstan the workplace is also likely to lead both female and male migrants to have mixed connections while leisure pursuits and accommodations are settings where females are more likely to become acquainted with new people from countries other than their country of origin