Descripción del proyecto
La salud pública y los profesionales del sexo migrantes
La afluencia reciente de refugiados y migrantes a las ciudades europeas ha ocasionado nuevas situaciones de pobreza y exclusión social. Entre los grupos más vulnerables están las personas que trabajan en la industria del sexo. Como consecuencia, han surgido nuevas amenazas para la salud pública. Las autoridades locales no estaban preparadas para abordar el problema y se han intensificado las tensiones políticas. El proyecto CosmopolitanCare, financiado con fondos europeos, estudiará la forma en que la coordinación entre las sociedades locales, los expertos humanitarios y los trabajadores de la industria del sexo afecta a la relación de los trabajadores sexuales migrantes y refugiados con la salud pública. El objetivo principal del proyecto es identificar los puntos de referencia entre las ciudades, la migración y la salud pública e investigar el efecto de las distintas formas de intervención en la salud de los trabajadores sexuales migrantes y refugiados.
Objetivo
"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."
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
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Francia