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A news article from www.iol.co.za on the 4th March 2010. This story is from the sports pages and addresses concerns that the World Cup will lead to women entering South Africa to work in the sex industry. It is reported that the Central Drug Authority believe that 40,000 women will enter the country – many from Eastern Europe. UNODC are reported as questioning the source of the 40,000 figure.
A news article from www.iol.co.za on the 4th March 2010. This story is from the sports pages and addresses concerns that the World Cup will lead to women entering South Africa to work in the sex industry. It is reported that the Central Drug Authority believe that 40,000 women will enter the country – many from Eastern Europe. UNODC are reported as questioning the source of the 40,000 figure. A UNODC Toolkit that provides an overview of the task of combating trafficking in persons. Each chapter provides guidance on specific aspects of the trafficking response. (adapted from the author)
A news article from www.iol.co.za on the 4th March 2010. This story is from the sports pages and addresses concerns that the World Cup will lead to women entering South Africa to work in the sex industry. It is reported that the Central Drug Authority believe that 40,000 women will enter the country – many from Eastern Europe. UNODC are reported as questioning the source of the 40,000 figure.
Time: September 15-17, 2010 Venue: University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Deadline: August 15 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. This video on YouTube has stimulated an interesting debate. An article by Wahab, S. and Sloan, L in Research for Sex Work June 2004: 3-4.
Time: September 15-17, 2010 Venue: University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Deadline: August 15 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.
Men and women in Cardiff are increasingly turning to prostitution as a career choice, a study which lifts the lid on the capital’s sex industry has revealed. The groundbreaking research has for the first time found the reason why hundreds of people in Cardiff choose to sell their bodies. The findings dispel the myth of sex workers trapped in a dangerous trade by controlling pimps, financial insecurity and drug and alcohol abuse.
A London seminar will explore the relationship between migration, the sex industry and trafficking in the UK by presenting the findings of the ESRC-funded ‘Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry’, led by Dr Nick Mai, Institute for the Study of European Transformations at London Metropolitan University. MONDAY 31 OCTOBER 2011, 3pm to 6pm London Metropolitan University, Libeskind Building, 166-220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB
Over the last decade, researchers and legislators have struggled to get an accurate picture of the scale and nature of the problem of human trafficking. In the absence of reliable data, some anti-prostitution activists have asserted that a causal relationship exists between legalised prostitution and human trafficking. They claim that systems of legalised or decriminalised prostitution lead to increases in trafficking into the sex industry.
While the stigma surrounding sex work is both well documented and easily recognised, few studies examine stigma in this context from the perspective of the sex workers themselves. In this article we report on a study using a modified grounded theory approach to analyse a series of semi-structured interviews with 49 female sex workers in Hong Kong, in order to examine the ways in which this group experiences and negotiates the stigma which arises from their employment in the sex industry. Article in the Journal of Travel Medicine, 2011, Jan-Feb; 18(1): 1-7.
An article in the Journal of Law and Society, Volume 37, Number 1, March 2010. Weitzer explores the growth of what he describes as a moral crusade in the US aimed at expanding the criminalisation of sex work. He shows how there is a growing trend to conflate sex work with human trafficking and explores the impact of this movement on legal norms and government policies. Weitzer believes this trend has been prompted by the expansion of the sex industry and its normalisation in American society.
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