Neighbors’ anxieties against prostitutes’ fears: Ambivalence and repression in the policing of street prostitution in France☆

摘要: Abstract At the end of 1990s, prostitution became a renewed political issue in France with arrival migrant women supposedly under grip organized criminal networks. Neighbors new zones expressed ambivalent feelings, mixing compassion toward victims human trafficking fear threat created by people belonging to underworld. Authorities have adopted ambiguous policies as well, first and foremost law that pretends rescue prostitutes while making soliciting an offense. These aim make disappear from urban space forcing them return underground. Since then, live being assaulted, harassed, and, for those who are illegal migrants, expelled France. Mobilizations been unable challenge these policies, prostitutes’ supporters divided between define sex work think it is modern slavery. Prostitutes ’ fears price they paying responding neighbors anxieties, use feelings based on class, ethnic gender inequalities.