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Mobile and migrant sex workers

Explore key barriers faced by migrant sex workers including legal discrimination and lack of healthcare, and discover examples of good practices and recommendations for policy improvements.

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Mobile and migrant sex workers

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  1. Mobile and migrant sex workers Jo Bernardo, Licia Brussa, Pia Covre, Veronica Munk

  2. Key barriers • The legal situation favours and provoke discrimination, exclusion and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. • To be undocumented = no health insurance = isolation = violence = dependency • Cultural and language differences • Criminalisation and discrimination towards migrants and sex workers • No recognition of labour migration • Incapacity of services to deal with the specificities of migrants, specially migrant sex workers. • No legal framework regarding transgender identity.

  3. Examples of good practices • Skilled outreach workers prepared to deal with migrant sex workers. • Services offer anonymous and voluntary services in some countries. • Cultural mediation and peer education is already recognised and used in some countries, within health services and NGOs.

  4. Recommendations • Policies and actions should be based on a human rights approach. • To avoid criminalising sex workers and migrants. • To guarantee the universal right to access health. • Policy makers should consider that prevention and care is more effective then deportation and repression.

  5. Recommendations • The access to counselling, testing and treatment should be anonymous and voluntary, regardless of the legal status. • We strongly recommend to promote accessible services, which include outreach work, harm reduction, peer education and cultural mediation. • Network and lobby should be reinforced and supported on national and European level.

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