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标题：Negotiating the city: Exploring the intersecting vulnerabilities of non-national migrant mothers who sell sex in Johannesburg, South Africa
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作者：Rebecca Walker ; Jo Vearey ; Lorraine Nencel 等
期刊名称：Agenda
印刷版ISSN：1013-0950
电子版ISSN：2158-978X
出版年度：2017
卷号：31
期号：1
页码：91-103
DOI：10.1080/10130950.2017.1338858
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：This article explores the intersecting vulnerabilities of non-national migrant mothers who sell sex in Johannesburg, South Africa – one of the most unequal cities in the world. Migrants who struggle to access the benefits of the city live and work in precarious peripheral spaces where they experience intersecting vulnerabilities associated with gender norms, race, and nationality. These vulnerabilities manifest as abuse, discrimination, criminalisation, and multiple levels of structural and direct violence. Migrant women who sell sex also face stigma and moralising associated with the illegal sale of sex, being foreign, and being a single parent. Drawing on ethnographic work with non-national migrant mothers who sell sex in Johannesburg, and from ongoing work exploring research, policy and programmatic responses to migration, sex work and health, we use an analytical lens of intersectionality to explore the daily challenges associated with encountering and negotiating intersecting vulnerabilities....
关键词：sex work; mothers; migration; South Africa; intersectionality; entanglements