ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part utilises work–life border theory to discuss how sex workers balance their work and personal lives through negotiation of sex worker identity, intentionality in addressing challenges within relationships, controlling disclosure of sex work, giving and receiving support; and using various institutions as a platform for legitimacy. It analyzes the characteristics of economic, sexual, and emotional exchanges between Brazil and Spain in light of the latter’s economic crisis to argue that sex workers’ relatives regard their labor as tolerable or even desirable when it generates a redistribution of material resources. The part examines how female migrants selling sexual services organize their mothering and the various ways in which their identities as single mothers, migrants, and sex workers intersect. It also analyzes power dynamics between men who purchase and provide erotic massage within the context of sex tourism-related encounters.
