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L’Errance et la prostitution des mineurs et des Jeunes majeurs migrants dans l’espace de l’Union Européenne

Document number
2253
Date
2007
Title
L’Errance et la prostitution des mineurs et des Jeunes majeurs migrants dans l’espace de l’Union Européenne
Author/publisher
Dr. Nick Mai, Institute for the Study of European Transformations – ISET
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
With extended summary in English
Summary
This research focuses on minor and young migrants' involvement in male sex work  as a prism through which to explore the relation between intra-psychological and  physical mobility. Its main aims are to understand the specific way in which sex work responds to the complexity of the needs of minor and young migrants and to define  the main cultural, social, economic and psycho-social determinants of ‘errant  mobility'. This is a form of mobility many migrant minors and young people engage in  and is characterised by:

• the constant displacement between EU cities in different national contexts,
• the recourse to predominantly illegal and dangerous strategies of survival  (sex work, drug smuggling, theft, exploitation in the unskilled and  unregulated sector of the labour market),
• the aspiration to a rapid, linear and ‘easy' economic and social  emancipation, 
• the inability to reconcile moral worlds which are both aspired to and  difficult to reconcile with the background context.
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