Descrizione del progetto
Un approccio pionieristico alla lotta contro la tratta e lo sfruttamento
Le sfide globali della migrazione di massa e del traffico di esseri umani sono sempre più diffuse. In questo contesto, le politiche migratorie restrittive possono aumentare la vulnerabilità dei migranti alla violenza e allo sfruttamento. C’è dunque bisogno di un approccio nuovo e informato per affrontare questi problemi. Il progetto SEXHUM, finanziato dal Consiglio europeo della ricerca, esaminerà il rapporto tra migrazione, lavoro sessuale, sfruttamento e traffico attraverso un approccio interdisciplinare che incorpora il concetto di umanitarismo sessuale. Il progetto utilizzerà l’etnografia, le interviste e i metodi di ricerca co-creativa per raccogliere dati e informare le politiche anti-tratta in modo più efficace, attingendo alla comprensione e alle esperienze di operato e sfruttamento dei migranti nell’industria globale del sesso.
Obiettivo
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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Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantIstituzione ospitante
KT1 1LQ Kingston Upon Thames
Regno Unito