Sexual humanitarianism: Migration, sex work and trafficking

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Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Clattern Lecture Theatre, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE
Price: free

The Centre for Research on Communities, Identities and Difference (CResCID), at the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Kingston University would like to invite you to the launch of the SEXHUM: migration, sex work and trafficking project, which is funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

Between October 2016 and September 2020 SEXHUM will adopt an innovative and multidisciplinary methodology including long term participant observation, qualitative interviewing and participative ethnographic filmmaking to study the relation between migration, sex work and trafficking in Australia, France, New Zealand and the US. You can find more information about SEXHUM on its website.

The event will include a presentation by Prof Nicola Mai, SEXHUM's Principal Investigator, and the UK première screening of his new documentary ethnofiction Travel (63min), which examines the experiences of migration, sex work and trafficking of Nigerian women selling sex in Paris. Please click here to view the trailer.

SEXHUM's launch will inaugurate the 2016-17 Migrations seminar series of CresCID. CresCID is a multi-disciplinary research centre developing high-quality and socially relevant research into the relationship between Communities, Identities and Difference within the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Kingston University in collaboration with other national and international universities. You can find out more about CresCID's activities here.

The launch will be followed by a wine reception at the Picton Room, also in the main building of the Penrhyn Road Campus of Kingston University.

For further information about this event:

Contact: Nick Mai
Email: N.Mai@kingston.ac.uk