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The lecture series closed on November 24th 2010 with the lecture in Zurich. Thank you very much, Laura Agustín.
Past lectures:
Leaving Morality Debates Behind: The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex
Lecture by Laura Agustín at the University of Zurich
24 November 2010 18:15-20:00h
University of Zürich, Rämistrasse 71
Hörsaal KO2-F-153
With the academic, media and ‘helping’ gaze fixed on women who sell sex, the great majority of phenomena that make up the sex industry are ignored. People who sell sex tend to be examined in terms of ‘prostitution’, focussing on transactions between individuals and personal motivations. A cultural-studies approach looks at commercial sex in its widest sense, examining its intersections with art, migration, ethics, service work, consumption, family life, entertainment, sport, economics, urban space, sexuality, tourism, informal economies and criminality, not omitting issues of race, class, gender, identity and citizenship. The object is to study the everyday practices involved, to reveal how our societies distinguish between activities considered normatively ‘social’ and activities denounced as criminally and morally wrong and to look for ways out of a seemingly intransigent social conflict.
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
Lecture by Laura Agustín at the University of Basel
Within the framework of the lecture "Sexualität - Sexualisierung - Sexismus - Ein Spannungsfeld"
10 novembre 2010, 14:15 - 18:00
Universität Basel, Englisches Seminar, Schönes Haus
Nadelberg 6, 4051 Basel
Grosser Vorlesungssaal
Sex at the Margins questions several popular beliefs about migrants who sell sex: that they are all passive victims, that the job of selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín argues that the label ‘trafficked’ does not accurately describe most migrants and that a Rescue Industry disempowers them. Based on extensive research amongst migrants who sell sex as well as social helpers, Sex at the Margins demonstrates how migration policy marginalises informal-sector workers and how anti-prostitution campaigns turn sex workers into casualties of globalisation.
Lecture by Laura Agustín at the University of Lausanne
8 novembre 2010, 17:30 - 19:00
Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Bâtiment Anthropole, Salle 2044
1015 Dorigny
Sex at the Margins questions several popular beliefs about migrants who sell sex: that they are all passive victims, that the job of selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín argues that the label ‘trafficked’ does not accurately describe most migrants and that a Rescue Industry disempowers them. Based on extensive research amongst migrants who sell sex as well as social helpers, Sex at the Margins demonstrates how migration policy marginalises informal-sector workers and how anti-prostitution campaigns turn sex workers into casualties of globalisation.
Migration, Social Integration and Gender
Lecture by Laura Agustín at the University of Bern
2. November 2010, 18:15 - 20:00
Hauptgebäude Universität Bern, , Hörsaal Nr. 114 / 1. OG West
Hochschulstrasse 4,
3012 Bern
Social integration projects are seriously crippled by migration policy in Europe. Increasingly restrictive regulations not only favour those migrants called ‘highly skilled’ but also pretend they are the only new actors needed in contemporary social economies. Meanwhile, migrants who will never qualify for such work permits know other kinds of jobs are available if only they can get across borders. Migrants’ engagement with informal travel networks and employment agents does not guarantee violence, but migrants who do encounter exploitation are unlikely to complain to the police. Moreover, most countries do not allow status-switching, so even when undocumented migrants are offered legal jobs, they probably cannot accept them. Women in low-prestige or stigmatised jobs in domestic service or the sex industry generally avoid participation in rights-initiatives that might attract attention. State policies that construct irregular migration through criminalisation thus actually perpetuate social exclusion.
Trafficking and Sex Work
Lecture by Laura Agustín at the University of Fribourg
28 octobre 2010, 13:15 - 15:00
Université de Fribourg, Sociologie, Politique sociale et Travail social,
Rte Bonnesfontaines 11, 1700 Fribourg
The work of Laura Agustín questions several popular beliefs about migrants who sell sex: that they are all passive victims, that the job of selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Agustín argues that the label ‘trafficked’ does not accurately describe most migrants and that a Rescue Industry disempowers them. Based on extensive research amongst migrants who sell sex as well as social helpers, this lecture demonstrates how migration policy marginalises informal-sector workers and how anti-prostitution campaigns turn sex workers into casualties of globalisation.
Lecture by Laura Agustín at the University of Neuchâtel
26 October 2010, 12:15 - 13:45
Université de Neuchâtel, MAPS
Faubourg de l'Hôpital 27, 2000 Neuchâtel
With the academic, media and ‘helping’ gaze fixed on women who sell sex, the great majority of phenomena that make up the sex industry are ignored. People who sell sex tend to be examined in terms of ‘prostitution’, focussing on transactions between individuals and personal motivations. A cultural-studies approach looks at commercial sex in its widest sense, examining its intersections with art, migration, ethics, service work, consumption, family life, entertainment, sport, economics, urban space, sexuality, tourism, informal economies and criminality, not omitting issues of race, class, gender, identity and citizenship. The object is to study the everyday practices involved, to reveal how our societies distinguish between activities considered normatively ‘social’ and activities denounced as criminally and morally wrong and to look for ways out of a seemingly intransigent social conflict.
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
Lecture by Laura Agustín at the University of Geneva
Discussant: Agnes Földhazi
5 October 2010, 18:15-20:30
Geneva, Uni Mail, Bd du Pont-d’Arve 40, Room MR160
Sex at the Margins questions several popular beliefs about migrants who sell sex: that they are all passive victims, that the job of selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín argues that the label ‘trafficked’ does not accurately describe most migrants and that a Rescue Industry disempowers them. Based on extensive research amongst migrants who sell sex as well as social helpers, Sex at the Margins demonstrates how migration policy marginalises informal-sector workers and how anti-prostitution campaigns turn sex workers into casualties of globalisation.
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