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On the frontiers of public health. Care for refugee sex workers in Paris as a case of internationalization of cities.

Projektbeschreibung

Öffentliche Gesundheit und Prostituierte mit Migrationshintergrund

Der jüngste Zustrom von Flüchtlingen und Migrierenden in europäische Städte haben neue Situationen von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung geschaffen. Zu den bedürftigsten Gruppen zählen Prostituierte. Infolgedessen entstanden neue Bedrohungen für die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung. Örtliche Behörden waren auf das Problem nicht vorbereitet und die politischen Spannungen nahmen zu. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt CosmopolitanCare wird untersuchen, wie die Koordination zwischen kommunalen Gemeinschaften, Fachleuten für humanitäre Hilfe und Prostituierten die Beziehung von Prostituierten mit Migrations- und Flüchtlingshintergrund zur öffentlichen Gesundheit beeinflussen. Das Projekt will vorrangig Orientierungspunkte zwischen Städten, Migration und öffentlicher Gesundheit identifizieren und die Auswirkungen verschiedener Interventionsmöglichkeiten in Bezug auf die Gesundheit von Prostituierten mit Migrations- und Flüchtlingshintergrund untersuchen.

Ziel

"The “refugee crisis” is turning cities into controversial arenas of the internationalization of public health. Local governments, unprepared to deal with the situations of poverty and exclusion experienced by refugees and migrants, call for coordination with humanitarian professionals. The research project aims to understand the ways in which the health problems of a growing and extremely marginalized urban population, that of migrant and refugee sex workers, are addressed. Research lies at the intersection of two theoretical debates that are mainly based on ethnographic and historical approaches. A first body of literature is only recently trying to overcome the dominant anti-trafficking discourse where care for sex workers has been confined. A second body of literature sees cities as the most convenient contexts to investigate controversies of global health – especially humanitarian care - in dealing with vulnerable and marginalized populations. Based on the combination of two inquiry methods - ethnography of outreach work and participatory action research – ""CosmopolitanCare"" aims to investigate the ways in which new forms of coordination among sex workers, humanitarian professionals and civil society affect migrant and refugee sex workers’ experiences of public health in the context of moral and political tensions emerging around both the issues of migration and prostitution in Europe. Main objectives are: (a) to generate a frontier perspective on cities, health and migration; (b) to investigate the consequences of different modes of interventions on migrant and refugee sex workers’ health problems; (c) to turn research into an experience of collective evaluation of the accountability of the interventions under observation. The timeliness of the project offers an outstanding opportunity to experiment a new relationship between science and democracy and contribute to European innovation in public health research and urban policy."

Koordinator

ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 277 061,76
Adresse
54 BD RASPAIL
75270 Paris
Frankreich

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Region
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Links
Gesamtkosten
€ 277 061,76