Between market and punishment. Women’s Trajectories and careers in commercial sex in anti-trafficking context.

Abstract

In this paper, I propose to analyze some effects of the implementation of the anti-trafficking trafficking in Argentina. From an initial question about the high criminalization of women identified in judicial files, I explore the modalities in which subaltern women are included in the sexual market and their trajectories. Second, I explore the processes of market readjustment in the private departments of CABA since the deployment of anti-trafficking policies. So, I try to show that in the local context the judicial cases open by law 26.364 - and later by law 26.842 - have criminalized the trajectories of women who have been inserted into the sexual market initially as workers and later developed careers in commercial sex. I discuss the limits of the legal language to address the complexity of trajectories in the commercial sex.