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Who gets ‘left behind’? : promises and pitfalls in making the global development agenda work for sex workers - reflections from Southeast Asia

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Elias, Juanita and Holliday , Jenna (2019) Who gets ‘left behind’? : promises and pitfalls in making the global development agenda work for sex workers - reflections from Southeast Asia. Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, 45 (14). pp. 2566-2582. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2018.1456747

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1456747

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Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) do, at least on a rhetorical level, tie countries and other development actors to a rights-based vision of development, which expressly includes labour rights, migrant rights and women’s rights. Despite this, sex workers continue to migrate and work in the margins where rights are difficult to claim. In looking for sex work in the SDGs, we ask how the SDGs respond to the rights of sex workers and whether more needs to be read into the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development so that states are able to keep the new promise that no one be ‘left behind’? In investigating this issue, we draw upon research conducted in the Southeast Asian region and in Cambodia in particular. In analysing the commitment that development should be inclusive in ways that ‘leave no one behind’, we raise concerns about the target driven nature of the SDG development agenda that may well prove incapable of mediating the heated debates over the understandings of sex work that play out at both the international and the local level.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Sex workers -- Employment -- Southeast Asia, Prostitutes -- Employment -- Southeast Asia, Globalization
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
ISSN: 1469-9451
Official Date: 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
2019Published
22 April 2018Available
21 March 2018Accepted
Volume: 45
Number: 14
Page Range: pp. 2566-2582
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1456747
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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