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We live in an era of mass mobility where governments remain
committed to closing borders, engaging with securitisation
discourses and restrictive immigration policies, which in turn
nurture xenophobia and racism. It is within this wider context of
social and political unrest that the contributors of this
collection reflect on their experiences of conducting
criminological research. This collection focuses on the challenges
of doing research on the intersections between criminal justice and
immigration control, choosing and changing methodologies while
juggling the disciplinary and interdisciplinary requirements of the
work's audience. From research design, to fieldwork to writing-up,
this book captures every part of the research process, drawing on a
range of topics such as migration control, immigrant detention and
border policing. It also reflects on more neglected areas such as
the interpersonal and institutional contexts of research and the
ontological and epistemological assumptions embedded within data
analysis methods. It makes a significant contribution to our
understanding of the major developments in current research in this
field, how and why they occur and with what consequences. This book
seeks to shake off the phantom of undisturbed research settings by
bringing to the fore the researchers' involvement in the research
process and its products. An interdisciplinary collection, it can
be used as a reference not just for those interested in the
criminology of mobility but also as a learning tool for anyone
conducting research on a highly charged topic in contemporary
policy and politics.
Once again, prostitution occupies a prominent position on public
and political agendas, both nationally and internationally. A topic
of concern and interest within social and academic realms, it is a
highly moralised, contested issue that is at the centre of heated
and drawn-out debates. With each chapter dedicated to a separate
country and written by a national authority on the subject,
Assessing European Prostitution Policies seeks to explore how
prostitution is regulated in 21 European countries, thus drawing
out important implications for an effective and humane prostitution
policy. Indeed, this innovative volume brings together systematic
accounts of how national and local forms of governance influence
the commercial market for sex as well as the lives of sex workers
and third parties. All chapters cover the history of prostitution
policy, national laws regulating prostitution, policy formulation
and implementation, the national discourse on prostitution, the gap
between national and local regulation, the impact of policy on the
lives and rights of sex workers, and sex worker advocacy
organizations. In addition to this, the authors examine and
highlight how immigration, labour, fiscal and welfare law have as
much impact on the sex trade as designated prostitution law. A
unique interdisciplinary title that is comprehensive in its
coverage, Assessing European Prostitution Policies will appeal to
undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers,
sex worker advocacy organisations and policy makers interested in
fields such as Sexuality and Prostitution, Public Policy,
Criminology and Gender Studies.
We live in an era of mass mobility where governments remain
committed to closing borders, engaging with securitisation
discourses and restrictive immigration policies, which in turn
nurture xenophobia and racism. It is within this wider context of
social and political unrest that the contributors of this
collection reflect on their experiences of conducting
criminological research. This collection focuses on the challenges
of doing research on the intersections between criminal justice and
immigration control, choosing and changing methodologies while
juggling the disciplinary and interdisciplinary requirements of the
work's audience. From research design, to fieldwork to writing-up,
this book captures every part of the research process, drawing on a
range of topics such as migration control, immigrant detention and
border policing. It also reflects on more neglected areas such as
the interpersonal and institutional contexts of research and the
ontological and epistemological assumptions embedded within data
analysis methods. It makes a significant contribution to our
understanding of the major developments in current research in this
field, how and why they occur and with what consequences. This book
seeks to shake off the phantom of undisturbed research settings by
bringing to the fore the researchers' involvement in the research
process and its products. An interdisciplinary collection, it can
be used as a reference not just for those interested in the
criminology of mobility but also as a learning tool for anyone
conducting research on a highly charged topic in contemporary
policy and politics.
Once again, prostitution occupies a prominent position on public
and political agendas, both nationally and internationally. A topic
of concern and interest within social and academic realms, it is a
highly moralised, contested issue that is at the centre of heated
and drawn-out debates. With each chapter dedicated to a separate
country and written by a national authority on the subject,
Assessing European Prostitution Policies seeks to explore how
prostitution is regulated in 21 European countries, thus drawing
out important implications for an effective and humane prostitution
policy. Indeed, this innovative volume brings together systematic
accounts of how national and local forms of governance influence
the commercial market for sex as well as the lives of sex workers
and third parties. All chapters cover the history of prostitution
policy, national laws regulating prostitution, policy formulation
and implementation, the national discourse on prostitution, the gap
between national and local regulation, the impact of policy on the
lives and rights of sex workers, and sex worker advocacy
organizations. In addition to this, the authors examine and
highlight how immigration, labour, fiscal and welfare law have as
much impact on the sex trade as designated prostitution law. A
unique interdisciplinary title that is comprehensive in its
coverage, Assessing European Prostitution Policies will appeal to
undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers,
sex worker advocacy organisations and policy makers interested in
fields such as Sexuality and Prostitution, Public Policy,
Criminology and Gender Studies.
In Norway there has, since the end of the 1990's, been reported an
increased number of foreign women in prostitution. The increase has
led to changes within the local prostitution scene, due to the fact
that Norwegian women who support their drug abuse by prostitution
has left the market or become less visible. The Norwegian media
repeatedly describe the phenomenon by using words such as
explosions, invasions and floods of foreign prostitutes. It has
especially been the Nigerian group of women who have received
massive media attention, as media could report an increase from two
Nigerian women in 2003, to approximately four hundred within 2006.
Nigerian women were,in the period studied, described as more
visible, not only because of their ethnicity, but also because they
behaved differently from other groups of women. The public outcry
especially escalated when the prostitution scene became an
increasingly visible element in Oslo's parade street Karl Johan.
Nigerian women were in the public eye presented, in every way
possible, as being a "matter out of place", and as doing the wrong
things in the wrong places.
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