Transnational and Intimate Crossings: The 'Threatening Body' of the 'Migrant Sex-Worker'
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Article
Abstract
This paper introduces the rubric of the "migrant sex-working body" in order to theorize the affective and geopolitical valences of power 'threatened' by such bodies. The everyday and affective labours of migrant sex-workers whose bodies have been positioned as a 'threat' to the imagined community of the nation and to Hetero Factory's (Rossi 2003) family are fetishized in a Marxian sense in order to make an exploration of the collusion of transnational "structures of feeling" and border security regimes possible. In other words, the focus of the paper is not on or about the "migrant sex-working body", but rather on the epistemological, affective, and geopolitical ruptures the movements of such bodies invoke. Critical citizenship studies and Kristeva's notion of the abject (1982) along with insights drawn from queer theory underpin the analytic approach of the paper.
Repository Citation
White, Melissa A.. "Transnational and Intimate Crossings: The 'Threatening Body' of the 'Migrant Sex-Worker'." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 7, no. 1, 2007, pp. 1–17. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol7/iss1/51