ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the understanding of the intersection of motherhood and sex work is informed by a logic of dichotomy. It investigates the policies of migration and prostitution in a broad sense, including policies on family unification and anti-trafficking. The chapter discusses the forms of help the Danish migration and prostitution regimes offer the Thai migrant as well as the way in which the state regulate the migrants do not align with how the women wish to live their lives. It analyses the two case studies of Khem and Nee to investigate how transnational and local mothering interacts with sex work using a framework of constellations of absence/presence and the virtual/physical. Khem’s transnational mothering, engaging and going into a dialogical and freedom-oriented form, depends on the means of technology. This emerging form of mothering questions the form of motherhood that solely derives from the physical space.
