Bodies for sale. Migration and sex work

Résumé

There is a clear, though hidden, link between migration and sex work. Migrant
women are often trapped in a vast range of transactional sex (of which sex work
is only a part), due to global gender asymmetries and EU admission policies. Yet,
migrant sex work also involves young men, unaccompanied minors, and queer
people, in a complex apparatus formed by transformations of globalized capitalistic
economy, our (post)colonial cultural heritage, and male clients’ gender identity.
This reality asks for a theoretical analysis as well as a political-educational engagement in building our future multicultural society.