ABSTRACT
A travel route is formed by a network of contacts among fellow nationals who inform others of work opportunities, with a snowball effect. Other networks are formed by individuals who channel women within a circuit managed by people external to the sex industry. In both cases a sex worker’s period of residency within a country may be extremely brief. This form of mobility is inherent to migrant prostitution, and what at first glance may seem as a handicap may be taken as an opportunity. The fact that frequent mobility may limit possibilities for repeated contact with the target group should not detract from the equally valid fact that that said mobility can contribute to a further dissemination of health-promotion messages within the same circuits: it should be possible for those involved to become health messengers. So far the project has been able to use this phenomenon only to a limited extent, but that the possibility exists is demonstrated when sex workers interviewed as a control group, who had not been involved with the project’s activities, had already heard of TAMPEP through colleagues encountered in the new workplace or through fellow nationals before they left.
