I have been publishing on the subjects covered on this site for a number of years, in a variety of nongovernmental, academic and more popular or mainstream venues. This bibliography or list of publications includes all languages, both my original work in Spanish and English as well as translations by others of my writings into other languages. Correct citations are provided;. Be sure to give credit to author, editor, publishing house. My writings are Copyright © Laura Agustín.
My Books
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry: Zed Books, 2007
Trabajar en la industria del sexo, y otros tópicos migratorios: Gakoa, 2005
Editor, The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex. Special edition of Sexualities, 2007. Introduction by Laura Agustín.
Articles and essays in English for news and cultural media and non-academic journals
Is rape rampant in gender-equal Sweden? The Local, May 2009
Do you know whether or not you are a prostitute? Susie Bright’s Journal, February 2009
The Shadowy World of Sex Across Borders: Guardian, November 2008
What Not to Wear - if you want to be French: Guardian, August 2008
Border Thinking: Re-public, May 2008
The Sex in ‘Sex Trafficking’: American Sexuality, 2007
What’s Wrong with the ‘Trafficking’ Crusade:The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2007
Contributing to ‘Development’: Money Made Selling Sex: Research for Sex Work, 2006
Alternate Ethics, or: Telling Lies to Researchers: Research for Sex Work, 2004
Forget Victimisation: Granting Agency to Migrants: Development, 2003
The (Crying) Need for Different Kinds of Research: Research for Sex Work, 2002
Challenging ‘Place’: Leaving Home for Sex: Development, 2002
Sex workers and Violence Against Women : Utopic Visions or Battle of the Sexes? Development, 2001
They Speak, But Who Listens? in Creating Cultures in Cyberspace, 1999
Working in the European Sex Industry: translated by me from Trabajar en la industria del sexo, 2000
Daring Border-crossers: A Different Vision of Migrant Women in Sex Work, Health and Mobility in Europe,, 2004
Still Challenging ‘Place’: Sex, Money and Agency in Women’s Migrations in Women and the Politics of Place, 2005
Action against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children: ILO, 2000
Articles in English for academic journals and books
Sex and the Limits of Enlightenment: The Irrationality of Legal Regimes to Control Prostitution: Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2008
Questioning Solidarity: Outreach with Migrants Who Sell Sex: Sexualities, 2007
The Disappearing of a Migration Category: Migrants Who Sell Sex: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, 2006
The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex: Sexualities, 2005
Migrants in the Mistress’s House: Other Voices in the ‘Trafficking’ Debate: Social Politics, 2005
A Migrant World of Services: Social Politics, 2003
Also published in Gendered Borders: Women and Immigration Law in Europe, 2007
Helping Women Who Sell Sex: The Construction of Benevolent Identities: rhizomes, 2005
Money in the Margins: Migrants in the Sex Industry in Livelihoods at the Margins: Surviving the Streets, 2007.
Migration and Mobility in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, 2007
The Conundrum of Women’s Agency: Migration and the Sex Industry in Sex Work Now, 2006
Review of The Suffering of the Immigrant: by Abdelmalek Sayad, 2005
Review of Love for Sale: A Global History of Prostitution, N. Ringdal and Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930, A. Hayes. Women’s History Review, 2007
Review of Illicit and Illegal: Sex, regulation and social control, J. Phoenix and S. Oerton. Journal of Social Policy, 2005
Review of The Politics of Prostitution, J. Outshoorn, ed. Labour/Le Travail, 2005
Articles written in Spanish
Trabajo sexual y derecho al trabajo: CiudadaniaSx, boletin 4, diciembre 2008.
Republicado en Lo squaderno, Rivista di discussione culturale, n 11, marzo 2009.
Más allá de la victimización. La Vanguardia, 2006,
Atreverse a cruzar fronteras: Migrantes como protagonistas: Viento Sur, 2006
Cruzafronteras atrevidas: Mujeres extranjeras en prisión, 2005
Lo no hablado: deseos, sentimientos y la búsqueda de ‘pasárselo bien’. Trabajadoras del sexo: derechos, migraciones y tráfico en el siglo XXI, 2004
La familia española, la industria del sexo y las migrantes: Sexualidades: Diversidad y control social, 2003
Trabajadores migrantes en la industria del sexo: Tráfico y prostitución: experiencias de mujeres africanas,, 2003
Trabajar en la industria del sexo: OFRIM Suplementos, 2000
Mujeres inmigrantes ocupadas en la industria del sexo: Mujer, inmigración y trabajo, 2001
Articles by me translated to other languages by other people
Le migrazioni delle donne come ristrutturazione delle relazioni di genere: terrelibere.org, 2003
Remettre en question la notion de ‘place’: Quitter son pays pour le sexe: Constellations, 2003
Cessons de parler de victimes, reconnaissons aux migrants leur capacité d’agir: Cahiers genre et développement, 2005
Doprinos „Razvoju“: Novac zaraden prodajom seksualnih usluga. Seks, rad i drustvo: Projekat na temu seksualnog rada i seksualnosti, 2007
Copyright © Laura Agustín
Sex at the Margins
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry was published by Zed Books (London) in 2007. Click on the image to order:
