Law, Public Policy, and Sex Work in North America and China

Dewey, Susan; Zheng, Tao; Orchard, Treena

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25763-1_1

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“…Since the end of the 1970s, debates on sex work have been wrought by strong tensions amidst feminists between those denouncing prostitution, essentially as a manifestation of patriarchy, and those advocating the recognition of the agency of the women and men who decide to undertake sex work (Duggan and Hunter, 1995). Since the mid 1990s, in particular, there has been a strong rise in power of a neo-abolitionist approach to sex work within feminisms at a global level, these positions have seen the unexpected proximity between some feminisms with some conservative religious actors (Bernstein, 2010).…”

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The national and moral borders of the 2016 French law on sex work: An analysis of the ‘prostitution exit programme’

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Bail

2022

Critical Social Policy

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The 2016 law on prostitution in France introduced the so-called Swedish model approach to sex work, which, at the national level, criminalises those who purchase sex rather than the sex workers themselves. Alongside the repressive character of the law, lawmakers introduced a number of social policy measures through the implementation of a ‘prostitution exit programme’. Whilst some pioneering research has sought to evaluate the impact of penalising the clients of sex workers, no survey has yet focused on the outcomes of prostitution exit programmes. Based on qualitative data, including interviews with sex workers and grassroots organisations, this article aims to analyse how the programme was implemented and its overall outcomes. The interviews we conducted shed particular light on the fact that the implementation of the programme is impacted on by the application of restrictive migration policies.

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confidence: 99%