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
- Availability
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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. - Related documents