ABSTRACT

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.

摘要

边界将移民性工作者安置在一个已经边缘化的行业的边缘，并使他们被剥夺财产和处于危险状态的法律条件自然化。借助柏林的民族志田野调查，我们对保加利亚的穆斯林跨性别移民性工作者（以下称TISW）的日常接壤经历进行了交叉分析。着眼于三种互动环境-欧盟和德国政治内部的少数派，与法医机构的会面以及德国新的性工作法规-我们的研究表明，日常的接壤经历不仅是源于国家边境执法和公民身份监管，而且还源于交往。非国家行为者施加的社会文化障碍，而德国国家内部接壤的做法则加剧了对性/性别犯罪者和性工作的排斥和边缘化。我们得出的结论是，尽管TISWs本身是柏林的欧盟公民，但他们日常的过境经历需要对延缓TISWs的交叉压制系统有更细微的了解。抵达柏林下去。