is the title of the article of opinion that I have posted, for now, Gipuzkoa News Journal and Women in Red. In Public have summarized it out as a letter to readers. I have the hope that somewhere out more in Euskera. Hope you like it and we debate.
prostitution, hypocrisy and
Immigration Law by June
NAS sordid and degrading photos posted the last week by a leading English newspaper that showed scenes of explicit sex in the heart of Barcelona have reopened the debate on how institutions must act of prostitution. A necessary debate, but unfortunately, is being treated as a mere problem of public order. What worries the public is not the situation of multiple discrimination, invisibility and violations in which women live, mostly illegal immigrants, prostitutes, but their neighborhoods are interspersed with scenes look marginal. U
Euskadi is no stranger to this debate. Bilbao City Council, for example, has spent months preparing an ordinance municipal likeness of Barcelona. The goal, once again, not to protect illegal immigrants of Nigerian women who offer sexual services in the streets of our city, but keep them dispersed and hidden (which makes the public health intervention with them) to prevent tarnish the image of villa.
But the pictures of Barcelona have also served to reopen the appellant discussion between passes if the final solution to abolish or regulate prostitution. Those pushing to empty the streets of women engaged in prostitution claim the latter. In our view, however, the abolition versus regulation debate has been overtaken by social reality. It makes no sense to speak of regulation when about 90% of prostitutes are immigrants, and almost all practicing in the street are in an irregular situation.
Currently, the only viable way of adjustment for any immigrant is the social roots, which requires proof of continuous residence in the English state for three years and submit an employment contract. Corbacho Minister has reduced almost to zero the other way, the source of recruitment, and unlikely to interpret that prostitution is a difficult job that requires coverage of a Foreign labor. That is, that a prostitute could should be regularized first three years living without papers and make an offer of paid employment, to work in a club. "You can not make autonomous? Just look at the requirements for an immigrant qualifies for the status of independent work to understand it is completely unworkable.
Ultimately, however much they legalize the activity, the sector would still immersed in the underground economy: the owners of the clubs would continue profiting at the expense of workers in irregular status, duty-free option of self-employed. If the president of Madrid Esperanza Aguirre says he does not go for regular prostitution "is hypocritical, since In our view it is hypocritical to ignore that this option would not improve the situation of the vast majority of prostitutes because of a regulatory framework that discriminates against immigrants in all areas of your life.
The conclusion is clear: if something these women are victims, as well as gender inequalities, is of the Aliens Act, which reduce their employment options in the most precarious and alienating, like prostitution and domestic work. Is usually aimed at the Mafia to justify the actions against prostitution, and are noted as the source of the problem. In our opinion, organized crime merely to take advantage of the situation generated by the shielding of borders to prevent women migrant self undertake a project, the yields of these sexual networks.
What's more, including the National Anti-Trafficking Plan adopted last year recognizes that trafficked women fear being deported under the Immigration Law slows them to denounce their exploiters and abusers. The same plan, however, makes the protection of victims to cooperate with police, a condition that we find unacceptable and which shows the prosecution is still giving priority to the mafia, instead of giving priority to ensure the safety and basic rights of their victims.
Paradoxically, far from understanding the Aliens Act as a problem that compounds the problem of prostitution (controlled largely by the trafficking networks), political leaders and the mayor of Barcelona proposed as a solution to harden their application against the immigrants who practice it. In other words, as the police can not stop its activity, it is not illegal, it opens a deportation order to be irregular. The same politicians who claim to act against prostitution because it oppresses women proposed for them the double punishment of being expelled after being invisible in our society, royalty and exposed to physical health risks and emotional aggression and coercion related to the activity. On the other hand, refers to "save" when they ask these women is not anyone save their survival strategy they have chosen, but are recognized as citizens with equal voice and rights of local people.
Finally, while multiplying the messages that blame and stigmatize prostitutes, or others who pointed victimizers as ultimately responsible for sexual exploitation networks, calls attention than just quoting the other collective protagonist, without the that prostitution would disappear: the johns. Drawer is: there is no supply without demand. However, that demand not only still exists but is in great shape and even increasingly accepted as a sexual option in a society where everything is for sale, just waking thoughts.
what these kids think and feel no qualms young Westerners to enter the street with no rights for women relegated to the third category of citizen? Why if we accept that prostitution is a form of oppression against women does not point to the oppressors, the customers that fuel the business? I miss more awareness initiatives with a gender perspective that, given the frivolous idea of \u200b\u200b"whoring" as a leisure plan, to make men aware of their role when they decide to hire sex.
Ultimately, combining an anti-racist and feminist gaze appears indispensable for understanding the causes and elements that feed the prostitution and, therefore, to develop fair and effective policies to combat it.
* Member of SOS Racism
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