Sex, Deportation and Rescue: Economies of Migration among Nigerian Sex Workers
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Sex, Deportation and Rescue : Economies of Migration among Nigerian Sex Workers. / Plambech, Sine.
In: Feminist Economics, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2017, p. 134-159.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Sex, Deportation and Rescue
T2 - Economies of Migration among Nigerian Sex Workers
AU - Plambech, Sine
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This contribution explores the economies interlinked by the migration of Nigerian women sex workers. The literature and politics of sex work migration and human trafficking economies are commonly relegated to the realm that focuses on profits for criminal networks and pimps, in particular recirculating the claim that human trafficking is the “third largest” criminal economy after drugs and weapons. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Nigerian sex worker migrants conducted in Benin City, Nigeria, in 2011 and 2012, this study brings together four otherwise isolated migration economies – facilitation, remittances, deportation, and rescue – and suggests that we have to examine multiple sites and relink these in order to more fully understand the complexity of sex work migration. Drawing upon literature within transnational feminist analysis, critical human trafficking studies, and migration industry research, this study seeks to broaden our current understanding of the “economy of human trafficking.”
AB - This contribution explores the economies interlinked by the migration of Nigerian women sex workers. The literature and politics of sex work migration and human trafficking economies are commonly relegated to the realm that focuses on profits for criminal networks and pimps, in particular recirculating the claim that human trafficking is the “third largest” criminal economy after drugs and weapons. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Nigerian sex worker migrants conducted in Benin City, Nigeria, in 2011 and 2012, this study brings together four otherwise isolated migration economies – facilitation, remittances, deportation, and rescue – and suggests that we have to examine multiple sites and relink these in order to more fully understand the complexity of sex work migration. Drawing upon literature within transnational feminist analysis, critical human trafficking studies, and migration industry research, this study seeks to broaden our current understanding of the “economy of human trafficking.”
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Human trafficking
KW - sex work
KW - deportation
KW - rescue industry
KW - economy
KW - Nigeria
U2 - 10.1080/13545701.2016.1181272
DO - 10.1080/13545701.2016.1181272
M3 - Journal article
VL - 23
SP - 134
EP - 159
JO - Feminist Economics
JF - Feminist Economics
SN - 1354-5701
IS - 3
ER -
ID: 131644492