Who gets ‘Left behind’? Promises and pitfalls in making the global development agenda work for sex workers – reflections from Southeast Asia

Elias, Juanita; Holliday, Jenna

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2018.1456747

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“…Such gender equitable outcomes are critical for development and achievement of the SDGs, through the elimination of violence against women, improved health and education and increased empowerment. As demonstrated in Elias and Holliday's (2019) paper, for example, gendered norms and expectations around women's sexual activity must be addressed, in order that labour migration governance can respond to the labour and human rights of migrant women undertaking sex work. With clarity on the human and labour rights of sex workers will come a better ability to eliminate exploitation and abuse, and maximise the development benefits for these women, contributing directly to the SDGs.…”

Section: Feminised Migration Through the Lens Of The Sdgsmentioning

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Achieving the sustainable development goals: surfacing the role for a gender analytic of migration

Holliday

Hennebry

Gammage

2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper forms the introduction to the Special Issue: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the Gender, Migration and Development Nexus. This article takes a broad look at the changing dynamics of migration and development through the feminisation of globalised labour flows and the gendered experiences of categorisation by states and multilateral bodies, and the gender-specific vulnerabilities and outcomes of human mobility. We illustrate how a more nuanced approach to the SDGs that incorporates gender and migration is needed in order that policy and programming designed to achieve the 2030 Agenda is accurately informed and appropriately framed. In this paper and this Issue, we argue, that it is necessary to confront the SDGs with a deeper understanding of gender, migration and development in order to illuminate the interconnected globalised and transnational realities of gendered labour flows. With this aim in mind, we look to civil society participation and the role of the existing human rights architecture, as the key to ensuring that a deep, wholistic and ultimately universal application of the SDGs can be achieved addressing those populations whose rights to development have been undermined by dint of their migration or flight and applying a gender analysis to our understanding of migration and development.

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Section: Feminised Migration Through the Lens Of The Sdgsmentioning

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Achieving the sustainable development goals: surfacing the role for a gender analytic of migration

Holliday

Hennebry

Gammage

2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Scholars have criticized the framing of migration within the SDGs as territorially fixated (Hennebry et al 2018;Nijenhuis and Leung 2017). They have questioned the gendered character and experiences of migration as underrepresented (Gammage and Stevanovic 2018;Hennebry et al 2018;Holliday et al 2019) and describe how irregularity (Elias and Holliday 2018) and discrimination (Thompson and Walton-Roberts 2018) have been inadequately addressed by the global development goals. Adger et al (2019) fundamentally question the representation of migration in the SDGs, as still seeing migration as an exception rather than a normality.…”

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confidence: 99%

Migration and justice in the era of sustainable development goals: a conceptual framework

Janker

Thieme

2021

Sustain Sci

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Migration and mobility are major characteristics of societies worldwide. The reasons for and pathways of migrations vary, as do perceptions of migration. Political debates are often organised normatively: the debate on the sustainable development goals presents migration foremost as a development issue resulting from global inequalities. The problems faced by particular migrants, and what a more sustainable approach to migration would look like are, therefore, often lost in political debates. We aim to address those gaps: the article conceptualizes, based on established academic debates, how sustainability in migration can be addressed systematically, which aspects are important for a more sustainable migration process and which trade-offs and injustices exist from several perspectives. We create a conceptual framework of sustainability in migration processes, building on the concepts of inter- and intragenerational justice, commonly accepted as the core of the sustainability concept. We apply this conceptual framework to empirical findings on labour migration and multilocality in Kyrgyzstan. The case enables consideration of the nested system effects of scale and translocality. This research is novel because it bridges the divided literature on migration, justice and sustainability, integrates theoretical and empirical insights and provokes a debate on which kind of migration we want to achieve.

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“…Elias and Holliday note that this gap creates competing narratives around how people, particularly women, are able to see their bodies and sexualities. They argues that "the SDGs in separating [violence against women] VAW from labour rights have the potential to reproduce regimes of protection that exclude sex workers from the category of 'worker' in favour of approaches that position sex workers as 'victims'" (Elias and Holliday 2018). The reason this example is included here is that it provides further articulation of vertical authority and constriction on how women and girls are able to navigate their bodily agency and autonomy.…”

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“…While the risk for SOGIE youth is high, many young people do still undertake activist work to promote equality. As seen in the previous section on sexuality and agency, there is support for SOGIE people in spaces such as the sex work industry (Elias and Holliday 2018) and sexual health (Ridwan and Wu 2018). This type of work is led by young SOGIE people themselves, and/or with the assistance of their peers, colleagues, and allies.…”

Section: Queer Youth In Sdg 5 Activismmentioning

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Youth and Their Role in Attaining SDG5

Thomas¹

2020

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Youth are a heterogenous group, typically defined to an age bracket to highlight specific periods of social, emotional, and physiological development. They are diverse across ages, gender expressions and identities, sexual orientations, classes, races, geographic locations, access to power, and abilities. Most importantly, youth are categorized by the actions they take for the creation of a more equal and fairer world that is worthy of their energy.

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Who gets ‘Left behind’? Promises and pitfalls in making the global development agenda work for sex workers – reflections from Southeast Asia

Cited by 16 publications

References 24 publications

Achieving the sustainable development goals: surfacing the role for a gender analytic of migration

Achieving the sustainable development goals: surfacing the role for a gender analytic of migration

Migration and justice in the era of sustainable development goals: a conceptual framework

Youth and Their Role in Attaining SDG5

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