International Women’s Week discussing gendered and sexual labour mobility

Nipissing University celebrates International Women’s Week with a special lecture, titled Trafficking in victims: Sex, work, and the politics of gendered mobility, courtesy Megan Rivers-Moore on Friday, March 7, from 1 – 3 p.m. in the Nipissing Theatre, F213.Rivers-Moore is an assistant professor at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton University.  Her research takes place at the intersections of sociology, gender studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. Engaged in both academic and activist life in Costa Rica, She is particularly interested in exploring how sexuality operates transnationally. Other research interests include gendered affective labour, travel and tourism, race and ethnicity, postcolonial and transnational feminisms, and qualitative methods.
Here’s an Abstract: The aim of this talk is to consider some of the underlying and implicit assumptions that inform discussions about sex trafficking. Using examples from Latin America and North America, I argue that concerns about sex trafficking and saving victims reveal broader anxieties about belonging, mobility, sexuality, gender, and migration control. This talk will explore the raced and gendered politics of conflating all trafficking with sex trafficking, and sex trafficking with migrant sex work in order to argue for a more nuanced and complex approach to thinking about gendered and sexual labour mobility.??