ABSTRACT
Prostitution involving migrant sex workers occurs in all countries of the European Union. Groups are becoming increasingly mobile, both within single member states and within the larger community. In a phenomenon which merits particular attention, this mobility has activated a structural process of serial or chain migration, in which an individual who has already found employment in Europe may arrange for friends in the home country to follow. It should be stressed that migrant prostitution is not a temporary or a static phenomenon, and that parallels need to be drawn with the experiences of other groups who migrate to Europe in search of employment. The forms of the sex business in which migrant prostitutes most often work are street prostitution, sex clubs, shop windows, and private apartments. "Cultural mediators are a go-between who know the reasons, the customs and the codes of a majority culture and the host country".
