Publications

Here are my publications from the past ten years or so in popular, mainstream, academic and NGO venues. This bibliography includes all languages, both my original work in Spanish and English as well as translations by others of my writingss. Cite correctly, giving credit to author, editor, publishing house and original date. My writings are Copyright © Laura Agustín. Also see interviews and reviews.

My Books

Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry: Zed Books, 2007
Spanish edition Sexo y marginalidad: Emigración, mercado de trabajo e industria del rescate

Trabajar en la industria del sexo, y otros tópicos migratorios: Gakoa, 2005

Editor, The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex. Special edition of Sexualities, 2007. Introduction by Laura Agustín.

Articles and essays in English for news and cultural media and non-academic journals

Big claims, little evidence: Sweden’s law against buying sex, The Local, July 2010

Doubtful report on sex-purchase law, Svenska Dagbladet, July 2010

The Ease of Righteous Causes: What to feel about undocumented migration, London Progressive Journal, November 2009

Is rape rampant in gender-equal Sweden? The Local, May 2009

Do you know whether or not you are a prostitute? Susie Bright’s Journal, February 2009

The Shadowy World of Sex Across Borders: Guardian, November 2008

What Not to Wear - if you want to be French: Guardian, August 2008

Border Thinking: Re-public, May 2008

The Sex in ‘Sex Trafficking’: American Sexuality, 2007

What’s Wrong with the ‘Trafficking’ Crusade:The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2007

Contributing to ‘Development’: Money Made Selling Sex: Research for Sex Work, 2006

Alternate Ethics, or: Telling Lies to Researchers: Research for Sex Work, 2004

Forget Victimisation: Granting Agency to Migrants: Development, 2003

The (Crying) Need for Different Kinds of Research: Research for Sex Work, 2002

Challenging ‘Place’: Leaving Home for Sex: Development, 2002

Sex workers and Violence Against Women : Utopic Visions or Battle of the Sexes? Development, 2001

They Speak, But Who Listens? in Creating Cultures in Cyberspace, 1999

Working in the European Sex Industry: translated by me from Trabajar en la industria del sexo, 2000

Daring Border-crossers: A Different Vision of Migrant Women in Sex Work, Health and Mobility in Europe,, 2004

Still Challenging ‘Place’: Sex, Money and Agency in Women’s Migrations in Women and the Politics of Place, 2005

Action against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children: ILO, 2000

Articles in English for academic journals and books

Sex and the Limits of Enlightenment: The Irrationality of Legal Regimes to Control Prostitution: Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2008

Questioning Solidarity: Outreach with Migrants Who Sell Sex: Sexualities, 2007

The Disappearing of a Migration Category: Migrants Who Sell Sex: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies, 2006

The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex: Sexualities, 2005

Migrants in the Mistress’s House: Other Voices in the ‘Trafficking’ Debate: Social Politics, 2005

A Migrant World of Services: Social Politics, 2003

Also published in Gendered Borders: Women and Immigration Law in Europe, 2007

Helping Women Who Sell Sex: The Construction of Benevolent Identities: rhizomes, 2005

Money in the Margins: Migrants in the Sex Industry in Livelihoods at the Margins: Surviving the Streets, 2007.

Migration and Mobility in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, 2007

The Conundrum of Women’s Agency: Migration and the Sex Industry in Sex Work Now, 2006

Review of The Suffering of the Immigrant: by Abdelmalek Sayad, 2005

Review of Love for Sale: A Global History of Prostitution, N. Ringdal and Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930, A. Hayes. Women’s History Review, 2007

Review of Illicit and Illegal: Sex, regulation and social control, J. Phoenix and S. Oerton. Journal of Social Policy, 2005

Review of The Politics of Prostitution, J. Outshoorn, ed. Labour/Le Travail, 2005

Articles written in Spanish

Trabajo sexual y derecho al trabajo: CiudadaniaSx, boletin 4, diciembre 2008.

Republicado en Lo squaderno, Rivista di discussione culturale, n 11, marzo 2009.

Más allá de la victimización. La Vanguardia, 2006,

Atreverse a cruzar fronteras: Migrantes como protagonistas: Viento Sur, 2006

Cruzafronteras atrevidas: Mujeres extranjeras en prisión, 2005

Lo no hablado: deseos, sentimientos y la búsqueda de ‘pasárselo bien’. Trabajadoras del sexo: derechos, migraciones y tráfico en el siglo XXI, 2004

La familia española, la industria del sexo y las migrantes: Sexualidades: Diversidad y control social, 2003

Trabajadores migrantes en la industria del sexo: Tráfico y prostitución: experiencias de mujeres africanas,, 2003

Trabajar en la industria del sexo: OFRIM Suplementos, 2000

Mujeres inmigrantes ocupadas en la industria del sexo: Mujer, inmigración y trabajo, 2001

Articles written in Swedish

Tvivelaktig rapport om sexköp, Svenska Dagbladet, 2010

Sluta att moralisera över våra sexliv, Gudrun!: Expressen Sidan 4, 2010

Articles by me translated to other languages by other people

Le migrazioni delle donne come ristrutturazione delle relazioni di genere: terrelibere.org, 2003

Remettre en question la notion de ‘place’: Quitter son pays pour le sexe: Constellations, 2003

Cessons de parler de victimes, reconnaissons aux migrants leur capacité d’agir: Cahiers genre et développement, 2005

Doprinos „Razvoju“: Novac zaraden prodajom seksualnih usluga. Seks, rad i drustvo: Projekat na temu seksualnog rada i seksualnosti, 2007

Copyright © Laura Agustín