To browse Academia. In most countries, sex-work is criminalized and frowned upon. This leads to human rights abuses, especially for migrant female sex workers. The burden is heavier on migrant female sex-workers whose gender and foreign citizenship intersect to produce a plethora of adverse health, social, and legal outcomes. Ten female sex workers and two key-informants were interviewed, and being a small sample, they gave detailed information about their experiences.
The data was later analyzed using thematic analysis. Participants narrated experiences of social exclusion, exposure to diverse abuses, and health risks due to gender, immigrant status, and illegality of sex work. The experiences of female migrant sex workers, within contexts of sex work criminalization, are exacerbated by the intersectionality of these factors. Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link.
Need an account? Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta. Women endure several vulnerabilities in many African countries, more so when they have to survive on sex work as foreigners in a country where the act is illegal. For a moment, it may appear as though their human rights are suspended and they have suddenly become less human than the rest.
But then you have to ask whether this is because they are female, or because they are foreigners, or rather it is because they are involved in sex work in a country where it is illegal. The recent oil exploitation in Chad attracted job seekers not only from all over Chad but also neighboring Cameroon. Some of the job seekers were women, who turned to commercial sex work due to unemployment.
This led to an upsurge in the number of sex workers on the streets of the Chadian capital, Ndjamena, to the effect that most of the estimated 1, sex workers [2] in Chad are not locals. They come from the north of Cameroon, a minutes drive from the border town of Kousseri.
