Her research activity has focused on trafficking in human beings, prostitution, mafia and Italian healthcare system and mafia clans in Northern Italy. Her research activity has focused mainly on gender and organized crime on which she has recently published Gender and Organized Crime in Italy. The article presents the outcome of a qualitative study on female migrant sex workers involved in street prostitution during the first two waves of COVID in Italy, by focusing on their responses to the challenges posed by the pandemic in terms of economic strain and health hazards.
The study, carried out from January to January , has focused on the street sex market, given that this sector was particularly affected by mobility restrictions adopted during the pandemic, and on the city of Milan since it is one of the main hubs of human trafficking in Europe and one of the main sex markets in Italy, as well as one of the Italian cities most heavily hit by COVID Abbatecola, E.
Immigrazione e prostituzione in contesti metropolitani. Milano: Franco Angeli. Gli scenari della prostituzione straniera. Mondi Migranti , 1 , 31β Lavoro, sfruttamento e violenza di genere nei mercati globali del sesso.
I mercati del sesso. Adebayo Adebisi, Y. Adriaenssens, S. Quality of Work in Prostitution and Sex Work. Sociological Research Online , 21 9 , 1β Aghatise, E.
La condizione delle donne in Nigeria. Elementi socio-culturali e religiosi della donna africana tra passato e futuro Conference presentation. Agnoletto, V. Senza respiro. Milano: Altraeconomia. Agustin, L. Development , 44 , β Campbell Eds. Cullompton: Willan. London: Zed Books. Ambrosini, M. Comprate e vendute. Una ricerca su tratta e sfruttamento di donne straniere nel mercato della prostituzione.
