ABSTRACT
In this chapter Agustin examines stereotypes that erase individual experiences of migrant sex workers that lead to nonproductive debates and inaccurate ideas around migration, job markets, the informal economy, the sex industry, trafficking, and the idea of “good sex.” She examines the complex, ambiguous stories of women who sell sex to make travel and migration possible by providing money for a ticket, independence, job security, and flexibility. The purpose of this chapter is to show the many forms that migration with a sexual component can take. This does not to deny the possibility of danger or unfairness for migrant sex workers but is meant to avoid homogenizing the experiences of these women and reduce them to a single supposedly universal truth of victims in need of rescue.
