Abstract

DE MONTVALON, Prune. Trans, migrants and prostitutes in a city of France: Imbricated dominations and negotiation spaces. Trab. soc. [online]. 2014, n.23, pp.27-43. ISSN 1514-6871.

This article explores the power relations between foreign sex workers - usually labeled under the legal term of pimping or trafficking in human beings - as well as the strategies of negotiation and resistance they adopt. Rather than confronting the theory of the subject-actor to the theory of domination, this article intends to articulate different scales of analysis in order to observe the way social and political structures that affect foreign sex workers interact with interindividual dynamics to produce local power relations. The study, limited both in time and space, of a group of Latin-Amercian transgender sex workers in a French city in 2009 and 2010 allows for such analysis to take place.

Keywords : Prostitution; Migration; Transgender; Domination; Resistance.

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