Dr. Laura Agustin
Laura Agustin is Visiting Professor in Gender Studies and Migration at the University of Neuchâtel. She received her Ph.D. 2004 at Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Open University.
Agustin’s scholarly work is on migration, sex work and trafficking; gender, sexuality and deviance; prostitution and the sex industry; informal-sector and flexible labour; comparative feminisms; governmentality and regulation; research ethics; health rights and citizenship.
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Main publications:
(2007) Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry. London: Zed Books/New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2008) ‘Sex and the Limits of Enlightenment: Lessons from Europe.’ Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC.
(2008) with P. Hubbard, R. Matthews, J. Scoular. ‘Away from prying eyes? The urban geographies of “adult entertainment”.’ Progress in Human Geography, 32, 3, 363-81.
(2007) ‘Questioning Solidarity: Outreach.’ Sexualities, 10, 4, 519-34 and ‘An Introduction to the Cultural Study of Commercial Sex.’ 403-7.
(2006) ‘The Disappearing of a Migration Category: Migrants Who Sell Sex.’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32, 1, 29-47.
(2005) ‘The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex.’ Sexualities, 8, 5, 621-34.
(2005) ‘Migrants in the Mistress’s House: Other Voices in the “Trafficking” Debate.’ Social Politics, 12, 1, 96-117.
(2005) ‘Helping Women Who Sell Sex: The Construction of Benevolent Identities.’ Rhizomes, 10, special edition on Neo-Liberal Governmentality: Technologies of the Self & Governmental Conduct, H. Ren, ed. www.rhizomes.net/issue10/issue10.htm
(2004) ‘At Home in the Street: Questioning the Desire to Help and Save.’ In Controlling Sex: The Regulation of Intimacy and Identity. E. Bernstein and L. Shaffner, eds., 67-82. New York: Routledge Perspectives on Gender.
(2003) ‘A Migrant World of Services.’ Social Politics, 10, 3, 377-396.
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