Sex work and Migration: Research on narratives and networks

Conference on "Sex work and Migration: Research on narratives and networks from Thailand, The Netherlands, Japan and France" and a film screening and discussion on "CAER" (CAUGHT) by Nicola Mai and the TRANSgrediendo Intercultural Collective

(Funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) international project coordinated by Kaoru AOYAMA, "Between global sex work and human trafficking: an analysis of interviews and networks")

The conference gathers the members of the research project "Between global sex work and human trafficking: an analysis of interviews and networks". Our investigation and analysis present evidence of complex realities and wide-ranging factors influencing migration combined with sex work. We aim at documenting that global sex migration can no longer be understood in terms of the dichotomy between sex work based on self-determination and choice and victims of trafficking as part of an organised crime also known as “modern sexual slavery”.

Moderator :
PG Macioti (Activist and researcher in the fields of migration and sex work; Coordinator for the Jasmine project combating violence against sex workers, at Doctors of the World France)

Speakers :
13:30-13:40 - Introduction by Kaoru Aoyama (Professor, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University)
13:40-14:20 - Thailand - Sureeporn Punpueng (Assistant Professor, Director of Mahidol University Migration Center) and her team
14:20-15:00 - The Netherlands - Lorraine S. Nencel (Associate professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Marie-Louise Janssen (Assistant professor, University of Amsterdam), Carmen Buijtendorp (MA researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam))

15:00-15:10 Break

15:10-15:50 - Japan: - Kaoru Aoyama (Professor, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University)
15:50-16:30 - France - Hélène Le Bail (Researcher CNRS, CERI-Sciences Po Paris)

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(Funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (PI Naoko Miyaji; Co-I Kaoru Aoyama), “Trauma and gender in the era of calamity and hybrid: care, clinical practice, deviation and cultural creation”)

CAER (CAUGHT) is a collaborative documentary that was produced in a research project using collaborative filmmaking as a strategic research method. The film is the result of the collaboration between Nicola Mai, the principal investigator of the project, and the TRANSgrediendo Intercultural Collective, a grass root association defending the rights of trans Latina migrant women in Queens, New York City. The method of the film, ethnofiction, is based on the use of fictional methods including stigmatised populations in the production of their own representations.

With co-directors of the film, Liaan Winslet, TRANSgrediendo Intercultural Collective, and Nicola Mai, professor at Leicester University, and principal Investigator of the SEXHUM (ERC Consolidator Grant)

Discussants:
Gai Makimaki (SWASH, Japanese sex workers and supporters’ organization), Lily Miyata (Kansai University Institute of Human Rights Studies) and Ramona Freesz (Social worker, ARCAT-SOS group, harm reduction programme for precarious migrant women).

Translation from Japanese and Spanish/Portuguese:
Kanae Sarugasawa (Associate professor Aix-Marseille University) and Fernanda Lobato (MA student, Sciences Po Paris)

Organisers: Kaoru Aoyama (Kobe University) and Hélène Le Bail (groupe Migrations et Mobilités, CERI-Sciences Po Paris)