By Laura María Agustín
This groundbreaking e-book explodes a number of myths: that promoting intercourse is totally assorted from the other type of paintings; that migrants who promote intercourse are passive sufferers; and that the multitude of individuals out to save lots of them are with out self-interest. Laura Agust?n makes a passionate case opposed to those stereotypes, arguing that the label "trafficked" doesn't safely describe migrants' lives and that the "rescue undefined" disempowers them. in keeping with large study between migrants who promote intercourse and social helpers, intercourse on the Margins presents a greatly diversified research. usually, says Agust?n, migrants make rational offerings to shuttle and paintings within the intercourse undefined. even if they're taken care of like a marginalized crew they shape a part of the dynamic worldwide economic system. either robust and debatable, this ebook is key examining for all those that are looking to comprehend the more and more vital dating among intercourse markets, migration and the will for social justice.
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Moroccan woman in Spain)131 What employers call flexibility (closing up shop in one country, moving to another, relying on subcontracting or homework) often translates into oppressive conditions for workers. Flexibility can be reduced to regimes in which workers are passive objects: Transferability, ephemerality, servitude, diffusion. 132 Such classifications do not recognise how workers use grassroots networking to their own advantage. As the story of the domestic worker in Almería shows, everyone becomes an opportunist, women as well as men.
Then I had experience with a light you could simply plug in ... now that I have lived in the city, I do not think I could live in the province any more. (Filipina migrant in Manila)50 Pleasure and desire for travel enter into the migration project: Sometimes I enjoy working, I can travel and see beautiful places. I can go to nice restaurants. I enjoy that the Turkish men view us as desirable. (Ukrainian woman in Turkey)51 When you work a lot in one place then you ... get tired of the clients ...
It hurts, but don’t call me a poor thing,’ one woman . . said. Victims can also be very tough who will do anything to avenge the damage done to them and make a better life for themselves. 94 When someone is shanghaied and forced to work, everyone agrees that it is a crime. 96 Nonetheless, doubt is always planted about the condition of the sex worker’s state of mind, if not of her soul. Nickie Roberts describes working as a stripper in London’s Soho in the 1960s: A lot of the girls were Northerners who, like me, had hitched down to London with lots of high hopes, big dreams and fuck-all else.