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Laura María Agustín

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I write about people who travel and cross borders to work - lots of them without permission or with fake papers. Women who work as live-in maids or sell sex, men who wash dishes, pick fruit or sell sex. Border-crossers, undocumented migrants, folks who have paid smugglers to get somewhere new. In the media this is usually positioned as hideous trafficking, and all jobs in the sex industry as a fate worse than death. It's true, some women would rather die than be sex workers, but guess what? Others would rather die than be maids. In my writing I don't generalise. You need a whole lot of information before it's okay to stick labels on people.

My new book is Mediterranean noir, The Three-Headed Dog. It takes place in Spain, on the crazy-mixed C ...more

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	Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry 4.16 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Trabajar En La Industria del Sexo, y Otros Topicos Migratorios (Gakoa Liburuak) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sexo y marginalidad: Emigración, mercado de trabajo e industria del rescate (Rompeolas/ Breakwater) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Joyce Outshoorn, ed., The Politics of Prostitution.(Book Review): An article from: Labour/Le Travail 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[( Introducing the New Sexuality Studies )] [by: Steven Seidman] [Feb-2011] by Steven Seidman, Laura María Agustín (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A decolonial walk: Bengali migrants in the East End

To bring some post/decolonial history to a walking-tour literary festival, I’m offering Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. The novel’s protagonist is Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who comes to live in an estate in the East End of London via an arranged marriage in the 1980s. Her husband is pompous but not mean, a man who assumes she will be his obedient stay-at-home wife, cooking, providing children and not

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“When embarking on a social project that concerns other people, how do you decide what your actions will be? Do you choose what is most rewarding to you personally? Do you try to find out what the objects of your help actually want? How do you accomplish that? What do you do if you find out that you cannot realistically provide what they desire? Or if you don’t like it? In other words, who defines social projects?”
― Laura María Agustín, Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry

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