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Factors associated with sex work involvement among transgender women in Jamaica: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesJournal of the International AIDS Society, 2017
Introduction: Transgender women are disproportionately impacted by HIV. Transgender women involved in sex work may experience exacerbated violence, social exclusion, and HIV vulnerabilities, in comparison with non‐sex work‐involved transgender women ...
C. Logie   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Incubator and the Interregnum: Theorizing the (Work)Places of Class Struggle

open access: yesLateral
Labor landscapes of post-Fordism are commonly characterized by fragmentation, fracture, and atomization, with platformization as the latest abstraction of a workplace that is everywhere and nowhere.
Sarah Earnshaw
doaj   +1 more source

VISUALISATION OF SEX WORK: ECONOMISATION OF “WOMAN” SEXUALITY IN THE ROMA MALE COMMUNITY IN SKOPJE

open access: yesEtnoAntropoZum, 2016
Visualisation of sex work has a function to define sexuality and make it “visible” to the needs of potential customers, i.e. clients. In this way, sexuality, as well as the sexual/gender identity of the individual, is being economized.
Ines Crvenkovska-Risteska
doaj   +1 more source

Livelihoods as relational im/mobilities:exploring the everyday practices of young female sex workers in Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Age is now considered alongside other differentiating categories for exploring mobility experiences, yet little work has emerged conceptualising the im/mobilites of marginalized young people living in particularly difficult circumstances.
van Blerk, Lorraine
core   +3 more sources

How to Stage a Raid: Police, media and the master narrative of trafficking

open access: yesAnti-Trafficking Review, 2016
The article analyses a UK police raid in 2005 on a West Midlands massage parlour called Cuddles. This raid to rescue victims of trafficking reflects a state approach that, despite police claims to the media, is not victim-centred. In publicising the raid,
Annie Hill
doaj   +1 more source

Can Condoms Be Compelling? Examining the State Interest in Confiscating Condoms from Suspected Sex Workers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Confiscating condoms from suspected sex workers leaves them at risk for HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and unwanted pregnancy. Yet, police officers in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles collect condoms from sex workers to use ...
Newcomer, Meghan
core   +2 more sources

What Do Transgender Women’s Experiences Tell Us about Law? Towards an Understanding of Law as Legal Complex

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2010
Based on ethnographic study conducted in Istanbul, this thesis investigates the effects of law and legal operations on transgender women’s sex work and daily lives, and seeks to disentangle the multidimensional ways through which they and their conduct ...
Esen Ezgi Tascioglu
doaj  

My Experience is Mine to Tell: Challenging the abolitionist victimhood framework

open access: yesAnti-Trafficking Review, 2016
This article is an analytical auto-ethnography of an art exhibit on trafficking into the sex industry in New York City in 2015. The analysis is informed by my own experience as a formerly trafficked person, and by other women’s own interpretations of ...
Claudia Cojocaru
doaj   +1 more source

Replacing Myths with Facts: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Sex selection is the practice of attempting to control the sex of one's offspring in order to achieve a desired sex. One method of sex selection is sex-selective abortion. Laws banning sex-selective abortion are proliferating in the United States.
Brian Citro   +3 more
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