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Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2024

Elisa Camiscioli
Affiliation:
Binghamton University, State University of New York
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The conclusion opens with interwar debates on the deportation of women working in prostitution, highlighting how for many reformers, trafficking was a migration problem to be solved through migration controls. Rather than protecting vulnerable women, however, anti-trafficking policies that relied on exclusion and expulsion safeguarded the perceived vulnerability of national borders instead. The conclusion then turns to contemporary examples in which humanitarian efforts to protect “trafficking victims” serve as punishments instead, particularly if individuals are unable to rehearse the script of ideal victimhood, and embody its accompanying form of gendered sexual respectability. It closes with a discussion of French prostitution policy in the postwar period, including the abolition of regulationism in two stages, in 1946 and 1960; the domestic security law of 2003; and the criminalization of sex buyers (the “Nordic Model”) in 2016. In each of these examples, advocates framed the respective laws as humanitarian, progressive, and protective of sex workers. Yet all were efforts to moralize public space, promote law and order, and comply with a larger infrastructure of migration controls.

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Selling French Sex
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations
, pp. 233 - 250
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Conclusion
  • Elisa Camiscioli, Binghamton University, State University of New York
  • Book: Selling French Sex
  • Online publication: 04 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009418386.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Elisa Camiscioli, Binghamton University, State University of New York
  • Book: Selling French Sex
  • Online publication: 04 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009418386.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Elisa Camiscioli, Binghamton University, State University of New York
  • Book: Selling French Sex
  • Online publication: 04 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009418386.008
Available formats
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