Some posts were previously published in journals, newsletters and online and are so identified. Others are new writings and commentary. Some are reviews and interviews published by others about my book Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry.
Monthly Archives
July 2009 June 2009- 29: Marcha de trabajador@s sexuales en Perú: un bochinche/Sex workers march in Lima
- 26: TIP: Trafficking in Persons, the No-Methodology Report
- 24: What Not to Wear if you want to be French, and other tales of sex and women
- 22: What’s Wrong with the Trafficking Crusade? TIP Report Revisited
- 19: Migrant clients, table and taxi dances and sex work in New York
- 17: Red-light district razed in Goa, sex industry and trafficking take new forms
- 14: Decriminalising sex work only half the battle: South Africa
- 11: Making money on sex in Malaysia: massage or ‘Rent a Wife?’
- 08: Childhood, trafficking research, agency and cultural contradictions
- 04: Enjo kosai: compensated dating (or child prostitution) in Japan
- 01: Laws to control prostitution ineffective and irrational
- 28: Signs with SEX on a New Zealand street: escorts and schools
- 25: Gay tourism, ‘lewd adverts’ and the sex industry in Tel Aviv
- 21: 1 de Maio em Lisboa: Sex workers march in Lisbon on May Day
- 18: Albertine (Oslo’s honoured prostitute) and her lovers, clients, pimps
- 15: Is rape rampant in gender-equal Sweden?
- 13: Learning English to Become a Sex Worker: Benin
- 11: Exotic sex: diversity, ethnicity, whiteness and local prices
- 09: Sex Work: A Review of Recent Literature
- 06: Alternate Ethics, or: Telling Lies to Researchers
- 04: Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crime and Ethics
- 02: How self-smuggling looks: Calais
- 30: How people-smuggling looks: Gambia to the Canaries
- 27: Whiteness, diversity, multiculturalism and New Zealand’s PRA
- 24: Sex Trafficking Fantasies in New Zealand
- 22: Street walkers and vigilantes in a New Zealand community
- 20: New Zealand prostitution law, sex work, anti-migration and anti-trafficking
- 15: Webcam girls, virtual sex, sex tourism and the tax man
- 13: Bollywood’s melodramatic portrayal of prostitutes, sex workers, call girls
- 10: Sayad’s The Suffering of the Immigrant: book review by Laura Agustín
- 08: Chicha Mariani busca a su nieta: another kind of human trafficking
- 06: Male and trans sex workers, travel, organised crime: But sex trafficking from Korea?
- 03: Sex industry adapts to anti-trafficking laws, Korea
- 01: Sex worker rally in London against Policing and Crime Bill
- 30: No more sex-industry jobs via UK Jobcentres?
- 27: Karaoke: Developments in entertainment, associations with the sex industry
- 25: Empowerment, Victims, Violence and Gender Equality
- 23: Ni victimes ni coupables: Syndicat | New sex worker union announced in Paris
- 20: Bad reporting: prostitution law, nationalism and the BBC
- 18: UK police raids to find undocumented workers: expensive overkill
- 16: Casa de citas, America Latina: La normalidad del trabajo sexual en un sitio pobre
- 13: Don Kulick’s review of Sex at the Margins
- 11: Trafficking, smuggling, chaos: Undocumenteds aiming at UK
- 07: Paying to watch brothel sex: voyeurs, exhibitionists and reality sex tv
- 04: Brothel photos from World War II France
- 02: Sex Traffic at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts
- 27: Border Thinking
- 25: Women as people-smugglers and traffickers
- 23: Libro Trabajar en la industria del sexo/Book called Working in the Sex Industry
- 20: Host bars and Gender Equality: Men who serve women
- 18: Can national sexual conversations change? sex and money in the USA
- 16: How does the sex industry look? a facebook album
- 13: Chinese women, Australian brothel: money and murder but no trafficking
- 11: Male sex worker in Kenya with ‘important’ clients
- 08: Smuggled people get help from border police themselves
- 03: Do you know whether or not you are a prostitute? asks a Shanghai sign
- 02: Will a famous prostitute be allowed to rest alongside Calvin in Geneva?
- 30: Subtleties within the trafficking idea: Non-reductionism in news from Moldova
- 28: Academic reviews of Sex at the Margins as of December 2008
- 26: Only 10% of alleged trafficking cases in the US confirmed
- 22: UK unemployment offices carry adverts for jobs in the sex industry: Wrong or Right?
- 19: I’m a girlfriend, they’re my friends: money for sex without prostitution
- 16: What’s happening in Amsterdam? An overview of changing prostitution law
- 14: Trabajo sexual y derecho al trabajo: Sex work and the right to work
- 12: Prostituting Women’s Solidarity: Another voice questions the extent of sex trafficking
- 09: Sometimes satire is the best revenge: Anti-trafficking news from Norway
- 07: Strippers spoof Sarah Palin at a Vegas strip club
- 05: False papers and ‘illegal migrants’: Faujis in London
- 02: ‘We live in an age of helping victims’: new review of Sex at the Margins
- 29: Anti-sex-trafficking Law Causes Police Violence in Cambodia
- 26: Why Claiming ‘My Family Came Legally’ Probably Isn’t True
- 21: Women with initiative: Doing Things
- 19: 對 「 發 展 」 的 貢 獻 : 金 錢 促 使 性 交 易 / Contributing to ‘Development’: Money Made Selling Sex
- 17: Sex tourism, stripping, rentboys, brothels, courtesans, pornography, escorts and solidarity: What more could you ask?
- 15: Not sex trafficking: False Papers as a means to migrate
- 12: A Migrant World of Services (or Aren’t Sexual Services Also Services?)
- 10: Sex Trafficking v Prostitution: Judging the evidence
- 08: Glidecreme og gode intentioner: Lubricant and good intentions
- 05: The Full Anti-rescue Poster: Brothel workers oppose raids
- 03: The Shadowy World of Sex Across Borders: Anti-sex trafficking proposal in the UK
- 01: Growing demand for sex shops, lapdancing, poledancing and escort agencies
- 26: Sex with animals - another Swedish Model?
- 24: The Femina, a 1930s Berlin club where money and sex met
- 22: Fotos de trabajador@s sexuales en la conferencia de SIDA, DF, Mexico
- 19: The Sex in ‘Sex Trafficking’
- 17: Prostituées d’Europe - Prostitute Women and Sex Workers in Europe
- 13: Sex Industry Cultures: Not just sex work, or violence, or prostitution, or women or trafficking or rights
- 11: Hustling and Cruising with John Rechy
- 07: Cambodia Ladyboy Rescue Goes Wrong
- 03: Talents Needed for Sex Work - a partial list from the year 2000
- 29: Sex Workers Parade Themselves
- 27: Working in the European Sex Industry
- 22: Forget Victimisation: Granting Agency to Migrants
- 21: Prostitute, poveri e irregolari - Controlling migrant women, not helping prostitutes (or sex workers)
- 17: They Speak, But Who Listens?
- 14: Anti-trafficking: Sexy Sex Work Images on Banknotes
- 08: What’s Wrong with Helping? Another example from the world of sex work
- 05: Knowing Best, Doing Good
- 01: Europe: Grin and bare it, German naturists tell Poles
- 29: Sex-industry segments in Spain
- 26: Green-card spam
- 24: European Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labour and Migration
- 22: The (Crying) Need for Different Kinds of Research
- 19: Ethnicity and satire
- 17: Helping Women Who Sell Sex: The Construction of Benevolent Identities
- 15: Unwanted Rescues: A poster from Thailand
- 12: Working on ships, travelling by ship
- 11: Sex workers and Violence against Women: Utopic Visions or Battle of the Sexes?
- 10: Leaving Home for Sex
- 09: Migrant workers wait around for work: a description by Ana Castillo
- 08: Migrants paid to leave Spain
- 05: Ambiguous refugees: Blackbirding in 1943
- 04: Performance de sexoservicio revolucionario
- 03: Plus ça change: Smuggling migrants in 1949
- 03: Interview with Suzi Weissman of KPFK Los Angeles
- 30: Manifesto against new EU migration law
- 17: The Zed Book’s cover
- 17: BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed interview with Laura Agustin
- 17: Susie Bright interview with Laura Agustin
- 17: Erotic Award Finalist
- 17: Contributing to Development: Money Made Selling Sex
- 17: Mas allá de la victimización
- 17: Australian National Radio: Counterpoint interview
- 17: Spiked Review of Sex at the Margins
- 17: Reason: The Myth of the Migrant
- 17: Doug Henwood’s Interview with Laura Agustin
- 17: Quitter son pays pour le sexe
- 17: Le Immigrate Che Vendono Sesso Non Sono Vittime Ne Schiave
- 17: Die Weltwoche Review
- 16: BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour World Cup Prostitutes
- 15: Nicht alle empfinden das Gleiche über Sex
- 15: Atreverse a cruzar fronteras
- 15: Trabajar en la industria del sexo
- 15: Le migrazioni delle donne
- 15: Trafficking: return of the ‘white slavery’ scare?
- 15: Bloggingheads Sex Slaves
- 14: Erotic Review’s Review of Sex at the Margins
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