Mobilisation de femmes chinoises migrantes se prostituant à Paris. De l’invisibilité à l’action collective
Almost invisible in the Parisian urban landscape a few years ago, the Chinese sex workers have attracted lots of attention since 2013 due to their involvement in the recent demonstrations against a new bill on sex work. Since then, the Chinese women, mostly irregular residents, were invited by elect...
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| description | Almost invisible in the Parisian urban landscape a few years ago, the Chinese sex workers have attracted lots of attention since 2013 due to their involvement in the recent demonstrations against a new bill on sex work. Since then, the Chinese women, mostly irregular residents, were invited by elected representatives on local and national level and they created a sex worker collective at the end of 2014. To explain the rallying of highly stigmatized and precarious migrant women, three factors can be studied. Firstly, those women share a collective identity based on a common migration experience which is highly stigmatized. Secondly, they have the support of a well-established NGO which mobilized practical, political and media resources for them. Thirdly, their mobilization took place in a period of legislative reform and of broader mobilization among sex workers’ groups, which was a window of opportunity. The article proposes a chronological account of the mobilization process which underlines the synergy between the quest of legitimacy by the Chinese migrants and the militant approach of a humanitarian NGO, Doctors of the World. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-db5a54e1cc3f46c5bcbbe4cc135dd9242025-01-09T13:06:09ZfraGenre, Sexualité et SociétéGenre, Sexualité et Société2104-37362015-12-011410.4000/gss.3679Mobilisation de femmes chinoises migrantes se prostituant à Paris. De l’invisibilité à l’action collectiveHélène Le BailAlmost invisible in the Parisian urban landscape a few years ago, the Chinese sex workers have attracted lots of attention since 2013 due to their involvement in the recent demonstrations against a new bill on sex work. Since then, the Chinese women, mostly irregular residents, were invited by elected representatives on local and national level and they created a sex worker collective at the end of 2014. To explain the rallying of highly stigmatized and precarious migrant women, three factors can be studied. Firstly, those women share a collective identity based on a common migration experience which is highly stigmatized. Secondly, they have the support of a well-established NGO which mobilized practical, political and media resources for them. Thirdly, their mobilization took place in a period of legislative reform and of broader mobilization among sex workers’ groups, which was a window of opportunity. The article proposes a chronological account of the mobilization process which underlines the synergy between the quest of legitimacy by the Chinese migrants and the militant approach of a humanitarian NGO, Doctors of the World.https://journals.openedition.org/gss/3679sex workChinamigrationcollective actioncommunity health |
| spellingShingle | Hélène Le Bail Mobilisation de femmes chinoises migrantes se prostituant à Paris. De l’invisibilité à l’action collective Genre, Sexualité et Société sex work China migration collective action community health |
| title | Mobilisation de femmes chinoises migrantes se prostituant à Paris. De l’invisibilité à l’action collective |
| title_full | Mobilisation de femmes chinoises migrantes se prostituant à Paris. De l’invisibilité à l’action collective |
| title_fullStr | Mobilisation de femmes chinoises migrantes se prostituant à Paris. De l’invisibilité à l’action collective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mobilisation de femmes chinoises migrantes se prostituant à Paris. De l’invisibilité à l’action collective |
| title_short | Mobilisation de femmes chinoises migrantes se prostituant à Paris. De l’invisibilité à l’action collective |
| title_sort | mobilisation de femmes chinoises migrantes se prostituant a paris de l invisibilite a l action collective |
| topic | sex work China migration collective action community health |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/gss/3679 |
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