ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the experiences of annoyance, hostility and empathy in fieldwork. It also focuses on the ways in which emotions circulate in fieldwork to bind together the bodies of the researcher, the migrants selling sexual services and the social workers. The chapter explores how emotions are social constructs that play a crucial role in scholarly knowledge production, arguing that these emotions must be understood as having been produced through the field of prostitution policy in Denmark. It expresses that the circulations of annoyance, hostility, shame and empathy are produced through the discourses of feminist-abolitionism and social policy that constitute the Danish contact zone of prostitution. Within a feminist liberal discourse, the counter-logic articulates prostitution as an expression of women's sexual liberation, with prohibition of prostitution viewed as a limitation on women's sexual freedom. The feminist-abolitionist discourse supplies the social policy discourse.
