Thinking about Gender and Violence in Migration: An Introduction

Sex work or transactional sex? Shifting the dialogue from risk to rights

“…This implies responsibilities on the part of the state to address these structural inequalities to increase resilience, understood as an individual’s capacity to take advantage of opportunities and cope with adversity. 12 , 47 If unequal access to societal structures or unequal allocations of privilege and power within social structures diminishes resilience, 12 then we can argue that we need to address these unequal allocations to ensure rights and justice for all. This approach would allow us to better understand the reasons for young women’s engagement in these exchanges, the meanings that they and their families and peers give to these, and the resulting conditions of vulnerability or violence which emerge from them.…”