Series | Diaspore
Review | Symbologies and Writings in Transit
Chapter | Dos mercados sexuais nas relações tecidas por brasileiras presas em Barcelona
Dos mercados sexuais nas relações tecidas por brasileiras presas em Barcelona
Abstract
This article draws on data from a larger study: a multi-site ethnography of the networks established by people confined in female prisons in the cities of São Paulo and Barcelona. Focusing on ethnographic data from my fieldwork in Barcelona, I analyze the displacements created by transnational drug trade networks which involve sex work and marriage in Spain. Brazilian prisoners in Barcelona (accused of ‘crimes against public health’ – involvement in the sale and transportation of cocaine) create aid networks involving the ‘owners’ of apartment-based prostitution and trade relations with men who are also prisoners in Catalonian penitentiaries. These entanglements forged between the transnational drug trade, the sex trade, and aid networks, as seen in terms of detention and migration trajectories of the Brazilians imprisoned in Catalonia, allow us to analyze the links produced between (il)legal markets and networks that are constituted by exchanges of money, affection, sex, imprisonment, and migration.
Language: it
Keywords Migration • Love • Female prisons • Sex relationships
Copyright © 2016 Natália Corazza Padovani. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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