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Sex, Deportation and Rescue: Economies of Migration among Nigerian Sex Workers

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  • Sine Plambech

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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.”

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  • Sine Plambech, 2017. "Sex, Deportation and Rescue: Economies of Migration among Nigerian Sex Workers," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(3), pages 134-159, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:23:y:2017:i:3:p:134-159
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2016.1181272
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    1. P. G. Macioti & Eurydice Aroney & Calum Bennachie & Anne E. Fehrenbacher & Calogero Giametta & Heidi Hoefinger & Nicola Mai & Jennifer Musto, 2020. "Framing the Mother Tac: The Racialised, Sexualised and Gendered Politics of Modern Slavery in Australia," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-19, October.
    2. Heidi Hoefinger & Jennifer Musto & P. G. Macioti & Anne E. Fehrenbacher & Nicola Mai & Calum Bennachie & Calogero Giametta, 2019. "Community-Based Responses to Negative Health Impacts of Sexual Humanitarian Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Criminalization of Sex Work and Migration in the US," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-30, December.

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