This paper traces the contemporary governance of migrant sex work to early vagrancy laws aimed at controlling poor mobile populations and people not engaging in ‘honest’ labor. The paper argues that these notions of dishonest labor are still visible in the
contemporary crimmigration controls. It uses a legal analysis of the development of prostitution and immigration laws together with ...
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Niina Vuolajarvi PhD
Assistant Professor in International Migration
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Vuolajärvi, N. (2023) "The Discipline of Hope. Abolishing the Prison of Immobility in Post-Deportation Narratives." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Vuolajärvi N. (2022) Criminalizing the Sex Buyer. Experiences from the Nordic Region. LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security.
Vuolajärvi, N. (2019) "Governing
in the Name of Caring: Nordic Model of Prostitution and Its Punitive Consequences for Migrants Who Sell Sex."
Sexuality Research and Social Policy.
Vuolajärvi, N. (2018) "Precarious
Intimacies: Europeanized Border Regime and Migrant Sex Work."
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.