Autore
Peano, Irene

Titolo
Opaque loves. Governance and escape in the intimate sphere of Nigerian sex workers
Periodico
Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 359 - Pagina finale: 384

In this paper, I consider the economic-affective exchanges between migrant Nigeriansex workers and a variety of subjects, including their clients, lovers or husbands, butalso the governmental and non-governmental organizations involved in programs oftrafficking prevention and protection for recognised victims. Whilst these may appearto be disparate relationships with different rationales, I argue that subtendingall of them lie several kinds of interrelated ambiguities that are defining of the exchanges.On the one hand, a preoccupation with transparency, clear-cut definitionsand «truth» is belied by constantly erupting dissonances and the active manipulationof relationships. On the other hand, this also points to the ambiguity betweenthe economic and the affective domain, between the instrumental and the selfless,between love and money. These, in turn, highlight the ways in which processes ofsubjectification are ever-incomplete and indicate escape as defining what exceedsthem. The analysis is based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, corroboratedby shorter research trips and the collection and analysis of secondary material.



SICI: 1973-3194(2013)3<359:OLGAEI>2.0.ZU;2-H
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