Sex Work and the City: The Social Geography of Health and Safety in Tijuana, Mexico

摘要

Set in Tijuana, known best for its status as a border city, where transmigrants wait to leave while estadounidenses engage in the sunburned-tourist revelry typical of such places, Katsulis provides us with a detailed empirical study of the varied world of sexual service in Tijuana and shows how structural context and the divided and hierarchical nature of sex commerce differently impacts the occupational health of the city's diverse population of sex workers. [...] though "the system of health card registration is both coercive and misleading" and "far from ideal" (p. 85), Katsulis found that registered female sex workers (RFSW) in Tijuana suffer less police violence and social stigma while generally earning more per sex act than their unregistered female counterparts.