Trabajo sexual transnacional: consecuencias de las políticas criminalizadoras de la prostitución y de la crisis económica española sobre las trabajadoras sexuales migrantes

Abstract

The intense migratory flow that has characterized the European Sex Industry during the last two decades has recently been affected by the severe economic crisis facing countries like Spain.

In this regard, many non-EU migrants with Spanish residence permit are increasingly shifting to other EU countries such as France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Italy and Germany, thus expanding its scope (performance plazas) for the exercice of prostitution. This trend towards greater mobility of migrants can be perfectly contextualize from dynamism of the Sex Industry in a globalized capitalist market. Still, contrasts that often migrants traveling to places where prostitution is criminalized and persecuted widely, exposing themselves to suffer the consequences of State Violence. This applies, for example, Latin American migrants living in our country currently directed from Spain to France to work there. The existence of a very contradictory European Law around this issue, although the Swedish model (radical abolitionism) is prevailing in other States of the EU, makes it very difficult citizenship status of these migrants, swinging her legal condition between the role of «victim» and «irregular» migrant. At the same time, other groups of migrants are replacing on the national Sex Industry based on social and structural variables. This paper aims to address these movements, regardless of the traffic approach too trite, and repairing, however, the causes/consequences of the phenomena targeted.