Articles in English for academic journals and books
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Sex and the Limits of Enlightenment: The Irrationality of Legal Regimes to Control Prostitution, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2008
Editor of a special edition of Sexualities: The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex, 2007. Introduction by Laura Agustín.
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
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–Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist