This looks like a great event!
Maggie’s: The Toronto Sex Workers Action Project Presents
Sex At The Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and The Rescue Industry
Thursday, November 24, 2011
7:30pm at The Raging Spoon
761 Queen Street West
Toronto
Wheelchair accessible room and washrooms | Free
Books available for purchase, courtesy of the Toronto Women’s Bookstore
Dr. Laura Agustín, an internationally renowned sex worker rights advocate and an expert on undocumented migration and informal labour markets, is coming to Ryerson. 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.
Hosted by:
Maggie’s: The Toronto Sex Workers Action Project
Endorsed by:
No One Is Illegal–Toronto
The Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Ryerson University
The Ryerson Students’ Union
More info:
Laura Agustín’s blog – http://www.lauraagustin.com/
Maggie’s: The Toronto Sex Workers Action Project – http://maggiestoronto.ca/
