2011.11.24, 7:30 PM
Maggie’s: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project is proud to host Laura Agustín, an internationally renowned sex worker rights advocate and an expert on undocumented migration and informal labour markets. She will be giving a talk based on her book, “Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry”.
Sex at the Margins questions several popular beliefs about migrants who sell sex: that they are all passive victims, that the job of selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín argues that the label ‘trafficked’ does not accurately describe most migrants and that a Rescue Industry disempowers them. Based on extensive research amongst migrants who sell sex as well as social helpers, Sex at the Margins demonstrates how migration policy marginalises informal-sector workers and how anti-prostitution campaigns turn sex workers into casualties of globalisation.
Fully wheelchair accessible room and washrooms | Free
Endorsed by No One Is Illegal—Toronto, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Ryerson University and Ryerson Student Union
Books available for purchase, courtesy of the Toronto Women’s Bookstore
Check out Laura Agustín’s blog at http://www.lauraagustin.com/
www.maggiestoronto.ca
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