Prostitution, gender and migration - PROGEMI

Sted: Rokkansenteret

Project leader: Dag Stenvoll
Researchers: May-Len Skilbrei (FAFO), Christine Jacobsen (Rokkansenteret), Astrid Renland (UiO) and Irina Polyakova (UiO)

Funded by RCN (FRISAM).
Duration: 2006-2011

The project is built around two main research interests: Transnational prostitution as a form of female migration, and prostitution as a field where important political and academic conflicts around gender and sexuality are played out. The empirical case through which the research group explores these issues is Russian women’s prostitution related migration to Norway and discourses and policies on such migration. By approaching prostitution across borders from these two angles, we will link the issue to larger processes of female migration, and discuss how discourses on prostitution and migrant women can give insights on dominant ideas about gender and sexuality.

Read more about this project at Rokkansenteret's web pages.