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Victims Without Rights?. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 92
In Europe, the majority of sex workers are migrant
women. Who are these migrant sex workers? Innocent
victims of human trafficking, illegal migrants or
just providers of sexual services?
This study analyses human rights discourses regarding
migrant sex work and human trafficking with the help
of Foucault’s discourse theory. The question of
women’s consent, the contextualisation of migrant sex
work and trafficking in organised crime or survival
strategies, are crucial to understand the conflicting
discourses, perception of migrant sex workers and the
strategies to which the discourses lead.
International anti-trafficking legislation does not
serve for the judgements made by migrant prostitutes
and rather contributes to a victimisation discourse
regarding sex workers by adopting a criminalisation
strategy in which women’s human rights are not the
main focus anymore. Concerns about security and
immigration control prevail. Trafficked women are
only used for anti-trafficking crime proceedings
where they become victims without rights. The
protection and respect for human rights of trafficked
persons take the back seat.
Two cases (Sweden and Switzerland) are illustrated in
this study.
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