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Article: 'I never want to be rescued again': Melissa Ditmore argues that some anti-trafficking responses are making conditions more dangerous for voluntary sex workers.
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- New Internationalist
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- September 1, 2007
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III-conceived measures to prevent trafficking are doing harm to sex workers. A common casualty is women's mobility. For example, Romanian women travelling to Greece have had 'prostitute' stamped in their passports, making it impossible for them to travel legally. When legal migration becomes more difficult, services spring up to help would-be migrants to travel, either legally or illegally. Forced to depend on such services, determined migrants are at increased risk of abuse. Migrants, including sex workers, who experience abuse have little recourse to the law if their movement from place to place is itself illegal.
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