Montag, 22. Mai 2006
Protecting women
is one of the favourite occupation of 'Germans' - at least if it does not concern 'German' women but 'other'. With the upcoming world cup all are concerned about 'forced prostitution'. They want to prevent this with all means. Which at the moment means that there are more raids to find the trafficked women. Instead of them the police finds women who are voluntarily working as sex workers - and who since they do not have documents are deported. Naturally in their own interest.

The researcher Lorreta Ihme analyses how the discourses around 'forced prostitution' do not really care about sex workers threatened by violence. The discourses are rather about the 'other', the danger of mobility for women, etc.

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