Challenging Place: Leaving home for sex

Laura MaAgustín delves into the marginal world of migrant sex workers. She argues that there is a discontinuity between the images that NGO workers, government agents and others have of them as deprived of their home and undergoing traumatic experiences as trafficked sex workers, and the experiences...

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Published in:Development (Society for International Development) 2002-03, Vol.45 (1), p.110-117
Main Author: Agustin, Laura Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Development studies
Displacement
Justice
Labor Migration
Migrant Workers
Migration
Prostitution
Sex industry
Sex workers
Social problems
Women
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Summary:Laura MaAgustín delves into the marginal world of migrant sex workers. She argues that there is a discontinuity between the images that NGO workers, government agents and others have of them as deprived of their home and undergoing traumatic experiences as trafficked sex workers, and the experiences, expectation and narratives of the migrant prostitutes themselves. Migrant sex workers are not always forcibly displaced, and even when they are, their trajectories after leaving home can, and often do, lead them into positive outcomes (meeting new and interesting people, finding their 'place in the world', etc.). Agustín offers a description of the places - the 'milieux' - created and lived in by migrant women and transsexual sex workers.
ISSN:1011-6370
1461-7072
DOI:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110328