- Title
- Unfinished decriminalization: the impact of section 19 of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 on migrant sex workers’ rights and lives in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Creator
- Bennachie, Calum; Pickering, Annah; Lee, Jenny; Macioti, P. G.; Mai, Nicola; Fehrenbacher, Anne E.; Giametta, Calogero; Hoefinger, Heidi; Musto, Jennifer
- Relation
- Social Sciences Vol. 10, Issue 5, no. 179
- Relation
- https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10050179
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- In 2003, Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) passed the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 (PRA), which decriminalized sex work for NZ citizens and holders of permanent residency (PR) while excluding migrant sex workers (MSWs) from its protection. This is due to Section 19 (s19) of the PRA, added at the last minute against advice by the Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers’ Collective (NZPC) as an anti-trafficking clause. Because of s19, migrants on temporary visas found to be working as sex workers are liable to deportation by Immigration New Zealand (INZ). Drawing on original ethnographic and interview data gathered over 24 months of fieldwork, our study finds that migrant sex workers in New Zealand are vulnerable to violence and exploitation, and are too afraid to report these to the police for fear of deportation, corroborating earlier studies and studies completed while we were collecting data.
- Subject
- sex work; migrant sex workers; sex workers; migrant sex work; New Zealand; New Zealand Model; sexual humanitarianism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1422815
- Identifier
- uon:37878
- Identifier
- ISSN:2076-0760
- Rights
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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