Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents. Select sections of text to find matching patents with Artificial Intelligence. Select sections of text to find additional relevant content using AI-assisted search. DE EN. Topic Page Chevron down icon Chevron up icon Marketing. Start single access now. Access for companies. Springer Professional. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. Using feminist argumentation, the model aims to abolish commercial sex by criminalizing the buying of sexual services while not criminalizing the selling, as the aim is to protect, rather than punish, women.
Utilizing over 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, this article argues that in a situation where the majority of people who sell sex in the region are migrants, the regulation of commercial sex has shifted from prostitution to immigration policies, resulting in a double standard in the governance of national and foreign sellers of sexual services.
Client criminalization has a minor role in the regulation of commercial sex in the area, and instead, migrants become targets of punitive regulation executed through immigration and third-party laws. Nationals are provided social welfare policies to assist exit from commercial sex such as therapeutic counseling, whereas foreigners are excluded from state services and targeted with punitive measures, like deportations and evictions.
The article concludes that when examined in action, the Nordic model is a form of humanitarian governance that I call punitivist humanitarianism , or governing in the name of caring. Please log in to get access to your license. Log in Register for free. Dont have a licence yet?
Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:. Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" Online-Abonnement. However, it is important to note that of the Nordic countries, Denmark has not adopted client criminalization and Finland has only criminalized buying from persons who are trafficked or pimped. I use the term Nordic model here to refer to the humanitarian-feminist argumentation behind the Sex Purchase Act in order to highlight the discrepancy between the emphasis on protection within political discourse and the actual punitive governance of commercial sex within the countries that have adopted the so-called Nordic model.
