Essays about: "Prostitutes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the word Prostitutes.

  1. 1. Lost at the intersections: a postcolonial approach to the Swedish Sex Purchase Act

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Daniela Basto da Silva; [2020]
    Keywords : Sweden Sex Purchase Act; prostitution; sex workers; postcolonialism; intersectionality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the Swedish Sex Purchase Act and their claims of help and support to prostitutes, as outlined by two propositions: Kvinnofrid (proposition 1997/98:55) and in the 10-year evaluation of the Act (SOU 2010:49). It investigates these claims through an ethnography of law method and data collected from fieldwork is interpreted and reflected through the conceptual framework of postcolonial feminist legal theory and intersectionality. READ MORE

  3. 2. Under the "guise of protection". The construction of sex trafficked female prostitutes under the German prostitution policy

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Barbara Barth; [2020]
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    Abstract : Sex trafficking, as part of irregular migration, has caught worldwide attention in recent years and is affecting mainly women. This phenomenon is highly apparent in Germany where prostitution is legalised and is therefore often referred to as “brothel of Europe”. READ MORE

  4. 3. The World’s oldest Profession does Not have a Place in Modern Feminist society – a qualitative analysis of Talita and KOK e.V.’s described work for trafficking and prostitution victims

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Thania Persson; [2020]
    Keywords : Human trafficking; prostitution; undocumented migrants; feminism;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to compare organisations that help victims from human trafficking and prostitution with a focus on undocumented migrants. Germany is one of the chosen countries in this study because of the legalised and regulated prostitution policy and will be compared with Sweden with the contrasting policy in which sex purchase is criminalised but not to sell sex. READ MORE

  5. 4. Prostitution/ Sex work in Sweden and Germany : A Study of Former Research

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Juliette Desbuleux-Rettel; [2019]
    Keywords : prostitution; sex work; Sweden; Germany; sexköpslagen; Prostituiertenschutzgesetz;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with part of the current research about prostitution/ sex work in Sweden and Germany. While prostitution/ sex work is partly criminalized in Sweden, the German law is currently designed to improve the legal situation of prostitutes/ sex worker. READ MORE

  6. 5. They are not born to be victims or prostitutes – they are becoming : A qualitative study of how one organization in Moldova is working preventively with human trafficking

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HHJ, Avd. för socialt arbete

    Author : Andrea Ottosson; Louise Evenholm; Linnéa Emberg; [2019]
    Keywords : human trafficking; Moldova; Bronfenbrenner; prostitution; social work; prevention; människohandel; Moldavien; Bronfenbrenner; prostitution; socialt arbete; förebyggande;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to find out how one organisation in Moldova is working with the issue of human trafficking. It will therefore be explained how the professionals in that organisation describe how the human trafficking situation has developed in Moldova according to them and how they work and prevent the issue according to that developed situation. READ MORE