:: report from the workshop at Gender, Race, Class Conference ::

The aim of the workshop was to build on previous debates about the sex industry that have taken place in a variety of left feminist spaces over the last three years (including at Feminist Fightback conferences and the Feminist Activist Forum sponsored event last International Women’s Day). We wanted to look more in-depth at the ‘trafficking’ discourse that has provided the background and ideological justification for the Policing and Crime Bill – to ask what evidence it was based upon and how it interconnected with issues of gender and migration.
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