Author: Trimikliniotis, Nicos
Title: Trafficking, Profiteering and State Complicity: Research the Demand Side of Prostitution and Trafficking in Cyprus
Summary: This paper reflects on the issue of trafficking, exploitation and prostitution, primarily looking at that question from the ‘demand side’. Drawing on primary research on the situation in Cyprus, based on client interviews, it critically reflects on the meaning of the sex clients’ discourses as particular expressions of Cypriot masculine identities, from the perspective of regulating ‘demand’ as a means of combating sex trafficking. It locates the various client discourses within the broader issues which define the content and context of the social relations, focusing on the demand for sexual labour in the desire industries of Cyprus. The examination of client discourses reveals the cultural transformations and economic changes which transformed the nature of entertainment over the last years: uncovering the contradictions as regard sexualities, masculinities and the gender order is important to understanding the structure and modus operandi of the system of purchased sex that generates the demand for trafficking. Yet, such cultural practices are reproduced by the social structure, the profit-making industry and the complicit state. The paper questions the assumptions about criminalisation of demand. The case of Cyprus illustrates that trafficking of women is primarily a question of sexual and bonded labour and can be addressed via immigration and employment laws and policies.
Details: Nicosia, Cyprus: International Peace Research Institute; SYMFILIOSI, 2009. 32p.
Source: Internet Resource; Translocations: Migration and Social Change: An Inter-Disciplinary Open Access E-Journal
Year: 2009
Country: Cyprus
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Shelf Number: 118685
Keywords:
Human Trafficking (Cyprus)Prostitution (Cyprus)Sex Trafficking (Cyprus)Sexual Exploitation (Cyprus) |
