Between Spain and Brazil: Sexual work, legal models and repressive practices - Paper presented at theRound-table on Prostitution, Criminalization and Control of the Female Body: A Century and a Half of Abolitionism, XIII World Congress of Women, 2017 (original) (raw)

In this presentation I consider the effects of the articulation between laws and practices that follow different models on the work of Brazilian migrants in the sex industry in Spain. I refer to the inter-relations between national laws concerning prostitution that are inspired by an abolitionist model; municipal measures that are close to prohibitionism; police practices that evoke regulamentarianism; legal measures and national plans for confronting human trafficking and laws concerning migration. Based on ethnographic studies conducted between 2004 and 2015, my main argument is that the focus on the abolitionist model found in the national laws impedes perceiving the different forms of repressive controls on sexual work and migration that are triggered in these articulations