From Criminalization to Liberation: Organizing Migrant Asian Sex Workers Across Oceans

Date

December 2, 2019

Time

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Location

Jerome Greene Hall Room 701, Case Lounge

This conversation centers theories and practices that emerge from organizing with Asian sex worker communities embedded in complex migration networks that span East Asia, Southeast Asia, and North America. The dominant anti-trafficking discourse in relation to migrant sex work reinforces policing and surveillance networks, stigmatizes sex workers, and isolates migrants, with the result that it often harms those who it is meant to “save.”