Descripción del proyecto
Un planteamiento pionero para combatir la trata y la explotación
Los retos mundiales de la migración masiva y la trata son cada vez más frecuentes. En este contexto, las políticas migratorias restrictivas pueden aumentar la vulnerabilidad de los migrantes a la violencia y la explotación. Por ello, es necesario encontrar un nuevo planteamiento fundamentado para abordar estos problemas. En el proyecto SEXHUM, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, se examinará la relación entre migración, trabajo sexual, explotación y trata mediante un planteamiento interdisciplinario que incorpora el concepto de humanitarismo sexual. Su equipo empleará etnografía, entrevistas y métodos de investigación cocreativos para recopilar datos y fundamentar las políticas contra la trata de manera más efectiva, al aprovechar la comprensión y las experiencias de agencia y explotación de los propios migrantes en la industria mundial del sexo.
Objetivo
The humanitarian fight against trafficking in the sex industry legitimizes the enforcement of increasingly restrictive migration laws and controls, which often exacerbate sex workers’ vulnerability to being trafficked. SEXHUM adopts an art-science interdisciplinary approach bringing together visual anthropology, sociology, gender and queer studies and human geography to study the relationship between migration, sex work, exploitation and trafficking. It contextualizes this relationship within the global onset of sexual humanitarianism, a concept coined by the PI. It refers to the ways migrants are increasingly represented, understood and targeted by the media, policymakers and social interventions as vulnerable to exploitation and abuse in relation to their sexual orientation or behaviour. SEXHUM adopts a migration studies perspective and a participative approach to focus on migrant sex workers addressed by sexual humanitarianism as victims of trafficking. It reappraises the concepts of exploitation, slavery and trafficking through the lens of how they are understood and experienced by migrants.
The project analyses the global emergence of humanitarian migration governance by examining the impact of sexual humanitarianism across six strategic urban settings in Europe (France – Marseille and Paris), the US (New York and Los Angeles), Australia (Sydney) and New Zealand (Auckland) that are characterized by different policies on migration, sex work (criminalisation, regulation, de-criminalisation) and trafficking. The innovative method developed by the PI combines ethnographic observations, semi-structured interviewing and participative filmmaking to address the narrated as well as the affective, relational and performative dimensions of migrants’ experiences of agency and exploitation. The research will generate needed user-based data on the impact of anti-trafficking initiatives that will be highly relevant to policymaking.
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
KT1 1LQ Kingston Upon Thames
Reino Unido