CRIM 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Survival Sex, Transphobia
6 Jun 2018
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Ethnographic Fieldwork
● Frantz Of Maids and Madams
○ More than 100,000 Sri Lankan women leave their homes each year to seek
employment in the Arab world
○ Labor Trafficking?
■ Potential causes
● Migration
● Policies toward the entry of guest workers
● Women’s rights
■ Potential offenders
● Employers
● Recruiting agencies
● Women in the household
■ Potential trafficked persons
● Foreign workers
○ Victimizing means: vulnerability and dependency
○ Three stories
■ Different level of reliance on on employer
■ None of them representative for the entire problem but each help
understand a diverse problem
● Ethnographic fieldwork → gathering data from people by finding out their personal
experiences before putting it into data
● Dank et al. Surviving the Streets of New York
○ Issues in poverty, homophobia, transphobia, child abuse, criminalization
○ Peer community of LGBTQ, YMSM, YWSW youth: introduction to survival sex
economy
○ Lack of access to voluntary and low threshold services
○ Stigmatization
○ Frustrating experiences with social service system
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Document Summary
More than 100,000 sri lankan women leave their homes each year to seek employment in the arab world. Policies toward the entry of guest workers. Different level of reliance on on employer. None of them representative for the entire problem but each help understand a diverse problem. Ethnographic fieldwork gathering data from people by finding out their personal experiences before putting it into data. Issues in poverty, homophobia, transphobia, child abuse, criminalization. Peer community of lgbtq, ymsm, ywsw youth: introduction to survival sex economy. Lack of access to voluntary and low threshold services.
