ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses forms of support offered between sex industry workers, their family members, and intimate partners, considering how Latin American sex workers, mainly Brazilians, have coped with Spain's economic crisis. It reflects on the connections between sex work, intimacy, and kinship relationships drawing on studies that have analyzed the modalities of intimacy in which sex workers are engaged and on scholarship on migration that considers kinship relationships as central aspects of sex work and gendered migration. The chapter considers the narratives of two Brazilian women who worked in the sex industry in Barcelona and that of Shirley, a travesti from Uruguay, who also offered sexual services in that city and whose stories have significant relations with the narratives of the Brazilian women. Hunter refers to love in the realm of economic, sexual, and romantic exchanges. Analyzing love, in contexts of poverty, Hunter makes an important observation about the relationship between material and emotional aspects.
