Sex work and trafficking research, and its ethics
Key information
- Date
- Time
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4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
- Venue
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Room
- Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
About this event
This is an interim report of an on-going nine country international collaborative research project on migrant sex work and trafficking in persons. It tries to answer a crucial question for sex workers on the move: which conditions and resources would make migrants’ journeys into the sex trade safer?
With some empirical results from field work in France and Japan, this talk presents the background, theory and methodology of the project. To invite a lively discussion, a particular focus is put on research ethics including the meaning of consent by those who are assumed to be socially vulnerable.
- Organiser: SOAS Japan Research Centre
- Contact email: centres@soas.ac.uk
JSPS KAKEN No. 18KK0056 and 23H00059 on Global Sex Work and Trafficking (PI Kaoru Aoyama)
About the speaker
Kaoru Aoyama is a sociologist specialising in gender/sexuality and migration, and has been in sex work research for more than 20 years. She is a professor at the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies and the president of the Kobe Migration Research Center (KoMiReC), Kobe University, Japan.
She is the author of Thai Migrant Sex Workers: From Modernisation to Globalisation (Palgrave Macmillan 2009) and the editor, together with Emiko Ochiai, of Asian Women and intimate Work (Brill, 2014).
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