Workshop, 15-17th September, Neuchâtel:
“Migration, Feminism and the Sex Industry”
Open to PhD students, reasearchers and Post-docs in Gender Studies
Migration has transformed feminists' ideological conflict about the meaning of prostitution. From being a two-sided debate about whether 'sex work is work' or 'violence against women', the discussion now must consider migration policies that favour 'highly skilled', white-collar and technical professionals over those willing to take less prestigious jobs in the informal sector, including the sex industry.
Researchers working in the realm of migration and sex work and wishing to present a paper (15 minutes, followed by a 30 minutes discussion) are asked to send a title and an abstract before August 15 to: claudia.howald@unine.ch
Extended deadline: August 28.
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Bibliography, Conference Programme:
on leaving home and selling sex:
Daring Border-Crossers: A different vision of migrant women
Laura Mª Agustín
In Sex Work in a Changing Europe, H. Ward and S. Day, eds., 85-94. Kegan Paul, 2004.
on migration and victims:
Forget Victimisation: Granting Agency to Migrants
Laura Agustín
Development, 46.3, 30-36 (2003)
on jobs for migrant women:
A Migrant World of Services
Laura Agustín
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 2003, pp. 377-396
comparing white slavery with today's trafficking:
Loose Women or Lost Women? The re-emergence of the myth of 'white slavery' in contemporary discourses of 'trafficking in women'
Jo Doezema
Gender Issues, Vol.18, 1, pp. 23-50. 2000
on feminist ideas and the case of russia:
Deconstructing Trafficking in Women: the Example of Russia
Francine Pickup
Millennium - Journal of International Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4, 995-1021, 1998
on contemporary migrants who sell sex:
Migrants in the Mistress’s House: Other Voices in the ‘Trafficking’ Debate
Laura Agustín
Social Politics, Pages 96–117, 2005
on silences about sex work in migration studies:
The Disappearing of a Migration Category: Migrants Who Sell Sex
Laura Agustín
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32(1), 29-47, 2006
on sex work migration Switzerland:
Selling Sex in Order to Migrate: The End of the Migratory Dream?
Milena Chimienti
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
January 2010
on traffickers:
Considering the Other Side of Human Trafficking: Traffickers and Trafficking in Southern and Eastern Europe
Rebecca Surtees
European Journal of Criminology 5; 39, 2008
on children and trafficking:
On Challenges, Dilemmas, and Opportunities in Studying Trafficked Children
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak
Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 903–923, 2008
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