Crossing borders: the intersectional marginalisation of Bulgarian Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers in Berlin.

Bordering situates immigrant sex workers at the margins of an already marginalised industry and naturalises the legal conditions of their dispossession and precarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, we offer a situated intersectional analysis of the everyday bordering experiences of Mus...

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Published in:Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 47; no. 9; pp. 1922 - 1940
Main Authors: Altay, Tunay, Yurdakul, Gökçe, Korteweg, Anna C.
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Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2021
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          Altay, Tunay
          Yurdakul, Gökçe
          Korteweg, Anna C.
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          Department of Diversity and Social Conflict, Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute of Social Sciences, Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research, Berlin, Germany
          Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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        Border crossing
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      ab: Bordering situates immigrant sex workers at the margins of an already marginalised industry and naturalises the legal conditions of their dispossession and precarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, we offer a situated intersectional analysis of the everyday bordering experiences of Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers from Bulgaria (hereafter TISWs). Focusing on three interactional contexts – minority belonging within EU and German politics, encounters with medicolegal institutions, and the new sex work regulation in Germany – our study demonstrates both that everyday bordering experiences derive not solely from national border enforcement and citizenship regulation but also from intersectional sociocultural barriers imposed by non-state actors, while the internal bordering practices of the German state exacerbate the exclusion and marginalisation of sex/gender transgressive people and sex work. We conclude that despite their physical existence as EU citizens in Berlin, TISWs' everyday bordering experiences require a more nuanced understanding of intersectional systems of oppression which postpones TISWs' arrival in Berlin indefinitely.
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