Laura Agustín
Biographic Data
| ID | 215600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Agustín |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Agustín |
| SIGNATURE | AGUSTÍN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 224 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Snake Oil
Sex and the limits of enlightenment: The irrationality of legal regimes to control prostitution
Away from prying eyes? The urban geographies of `adult entertainment
Most towns and cities in the UK and USA possess a number of venues offering sexually orientated entertainment in the form of exotic dance, striptease or lap dancing. Traditionally subject to moral and legal censure, the majority of these sex-related businesses have tended to be situated in marginal urban spaces. As such, their increasing visibility in more mainstream spaces of urban nightlife raises important questions about the sexual and gender…
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
Introduction to the Cultural Study of Commercial Sex: Guest Editor
The articles in this collection explore how the meaning of buying and selling sex changes according to the social cultural and historical processes in which transactions are situated. In an earlier article published in this journal I proposed a theoretical framework for the cultural study of commercial sex that would liberate researchers from the restrictions of a debate intensely meaningful to some but highly repressive to many others centering …
Questioning Solidarity: Outreach with Migrants Who Sell Sex
Sex-industry culture includes large numbers of people offering to help people selling sex. Outreach, a concept developed to take health products and services to hard-to-reach groups, involves complicated cultural interactions. As with others who apply governmental technologies, social figures inventing and carrying out outreach projects often justify their actions without reference to what the `needy' actually need, relying instead on discourses …
The Disappearing of a Migration Category: Migrants Who Sell Sex
Migrant women selling sex are generally neglected by migration and diaspora studies. The moral panic on 'trafficking', a prolonged debate within feminism on commercial sex and some activists' attempts to conflate the concept of 'prostitution' with 'trafficking' combine to shift study of these migrants to domains of criminology and feminism, with the result that large numbers of women's migrations are little known. This article reveals the silence…
New Research Directions: The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex
A paradoxical combination of moral revulsion and resigned tolerance has permitted the sex industry’s uncontrolled development in the underground economy and also impeded research on the phenomena involved. The gaze of researchers as well as government and non-governmental actors remains fixed on individual women who sell sex, while a range of other issues is neglected. In this article, ethnographic material from Spain illustrates how commercial s…
The Suffering of the Immigrant
Migrants in the Mistress's House: Other Voices in the "Trafficking" Debate
Journal Article Migrants in the Mistress's House: Other Voices in the "Trafficking" Debate Get access Laura Agustín Laura Agustín Open University, U.K Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 96-117, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxi003 Published: 01 March 2005
A Migrant World of Services
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 2003
Migrants in the Mistress's House: Other Voices in the "Trafficking" Debate
Journal Article Migrants in the Mistress's House: Other Voices in the "Trafficking" Debate Get access Laura Agustín Laura Agustín Open University, U.K Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 96-117, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxi003 Published: 01 March 2005
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
The Disappearing of a Migration Category: Migrants Who Sell Sex
Migrant women selling sex are generally neglected by migration and diaspora studies. The moral panic on 'trafficking', a prolonged debate within feminism on commercial sex and some activists' attempts to conflate the concept of 'prostitution' with 'trafficking' combine to shift study of these migrants to domains of criminology and feminism, with the result that large numbers of women's migrations are little known. This article reveals the silence…
Away from prying eyes? The urban geographies of `adult entertainment
Most towns and cities in the UK and USA possess a number of venues offering sexually orientated entertainment in the form of exotic dance, striptease or lap dancing. Traditionally subject to moral and legal censure, the majority of these sex-related businesses have tended to be situated in marginal urban spaces. As such, their increasing visibility in more mainstream spaces of urban nightlife raises important questions about the sexual and gender…
A Migrant World of Services
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 2003
Sex and the limits of enlightenment: The irrationality of legal regimes to control prostitution
Snake Oil
A Migrant World of Services
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 10, Number 3, Fall 2003
New Research Directions: The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex
A paradoxical combination of moral revulsion and resigned tolerance has permitted the sex industry’s uncontrolled development in the underground economy and also impeded research on the phenomena involved. The gaze of researchers as well as government and non-governmental actors remains fixed on individual women who sell sex, while a range of other issues is neglected. In this article, ethnographic material from Spain illustrates how commercial s…
The Suffering of the Immigrant
Migrants in the Mistress's House: Other Voices in the "Trafficking" Debate
Journal Article Migrants in the Mistress's House: Other Voices in the "Trafficking" Debate Get access Laura Agustín Laura Agustín Open University, U.K Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2005, Pages 96-117, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxi003 Published: 01 March 2005
The Disappearing of a Migration Category: Migrants Who Sell Sex
Migrant women selling sex are generally neglected by migration and diaspora studies. The moral panic on 'trafficking', a prolonged debate within feminism on commercial sex and some activists' attempts to conflate the concept of 'prostitution' with 'trafficking' combine to shift study of these migrants to domains of criminology and feminism, with the result that large numbers of women's migrations are little known. This article reveals the silence…
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
Introduction to the Cultural Study of Commercial Sex: Guest Editor
The articles in this collection explore how the meaning of buying and selling sex changes according to the social cultural and historical processes in which transactions are situated. In an earlier article published in this journal I proposed a theoretical framework for the cultural study of commercial sex that would liberate researchers from the restrictions of a debate intensely meaningful to some but highly repressive to many others centering …
Questioning Solidarity: Outreach with Migrants Who Sell Sex
Sex-industry culture includes large numbers of people offering to help people selling sex. Outreach, a concept developed to take health products and services to hard-to-reach groups, involves complicated cultural interactions. As with others who apply governmental technologies, social figures inventing and carrying out outreach projects often justify their actions without reference to what the `needy' actually need, relying instead on discourses …
Sex and the limits of enlightenment: The irrationality of legal regimes to control prostitution
Away from prying eyes? The urban geographies of `adult entertainment
Most towns and cities in the UK and USA possess a number of venues offering sexually orientated entertainment in the form of exotic dance, striptease or lap dancing. Traditionally subject to moral and legal censure, the majority of these sex-related businesses have tended to be situated in marginal urban spaces. As such, their increasing visibility in more mainstream spaces of urban nightlife raises important questions about the sexual and gender…
Snake Oil
Sex work and related issues (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works)