Description du projet
La santé publique et les travailleurs du sexe migrants
La récente vague de réfugiés et de migrants dans les villes européennes a provoqué de nouvelles situations de pauvreté et d’exclusion sociale. Parmi les groupes les plus vulnérables se trouvent les travailleurs du sexe. Par conséquent, de nouvelles menaces à la santé publique ont vu le jour. Les autorités locales n’étaient pas préparées pour gérer l’intensification de ce problème et des tensions politiques. Le projet CosmopolitanCare, financé par l’UE, étudiera la manière dont la coordination entre les sociétés locales, les experts humanitaires et les travailleurs du sexe influence la relation des prostitués réfugiés et migrants, avec la santé publique. L’objectif principal du projet consiste à identifier les références entre les villes, la migration et la santé publique et à étudier l’effet des différents modes d’intervention sur la santé des travailleurs du sexe réfugiés et migrants.
Objectif
"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)Coordinateur
75270 Paris
France