ABSTRACT
This chapter critiques both the sex work “abolitionists” and the liberal pro-sex work organising from a peer migrant sex worker perspective. It argues that the representation of Asian migrant sex workers by organisations and researchers serves their self-interests. The aims of these organisations to either criminalise or decriminalise sex work, fail to address the issues faced by racialised sex workers. These issues are embedded in histories of colonialism and its establishment of global racialised capitalism. Reforms engage with and perpetuate the racial capitalist system rather than counter it. Therefore, more revolutionary tactics are necessary.
