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‘Too Much Suffering’: Understanding the Interplay between Migration, Bounded Exploitation and Trafficking through Nigerian Sex Workers’ Experiences

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Migrant sex workers’ experiences of exploitation depend on a dynamic re-evaluation of the working conditions and relationships that frame their entry into the global sex industry according to the subsequent unfolding of their working and wider lives. Contrary to the essentialist obliteration of consent introduced by abolitionist scholarship and policymaking, migrants can decide to endure bounded exploitative deals with people enabling their travel and work abroad in order to meet the economic and administrative (becoming documented) objectives they set for themselves. When this deal is broken as a result of the betrayal of original negotiations, migrants can decide to reframe their migration and work experience as trafficking and denounce their original enablers as traffickers, which gives them a chance to obtain the right to reside and work in the country of destination through asylum.

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  • Nicola Mai, 2016. "‘Too Much Suffering’: Understanding the Interplay between Migration, Bounded Exploitation and Trafficking through Nigerian Sex Workers’ Experiences," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 21(4), pages 159-172, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:159-172
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.4158
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    1. Jane Freedman & Nina Sahraoui & Elsa Tyszler, 2022. "Asylum, Racism, and the Structural Production of Sexual Violence against Racialised Women in Exile in Paris," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-17, September.
    2. Peter Backus & Thien Nguyen, 2021. "The Effect of the Sex Buyer Law on the Market for Sex, Sexual Health and Sexual Violence," Economics Discussion Paper Series 2106, Economics, The University of Manchester.
    3. P. G. Macioti & Eurydice Aroney & Calum Bennachie & Anne E. Fehrenbacher & Calogero Giametta & Heidi Hoefinger & Nicola Mai & Jennifer Musto, 2020. "Framing the Mother Tac: The Racialised, Sexualised and Gendered Politics of Modern Slavery in Australia," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-19, October.
    4. Michela Semprebon, 2024. "Protecting Protection Programmes or Engaging with People? Conditional Inclusion and Evolving Relational Dynamics in Anti-Trafficking Programmes," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-16, April.

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