ABSTRACT In the past decade an increasing number of adolescent girls in Ethiopia have moved from villages and rural towns to Addis Ababa to improve their own lives and those of their families. While girls’ migration is in a way a ‘normality’, with historically girls migrating for domestic work, the dominant discourse in Ethiopia describes the migration of girls mainly in terms of trafficking and exploitation, in particular when they are doing sex work. As a result, adolescent migrant girls are reduced to passive victims. In this paper we analyse the agency of adolescent migrant sex workers in three ‘phases’ of their migration process, namely in the decision to migrate, in their lives in the city, and in their future aspirations. We argue that the decisions of adolescent girls to migrate to Addis Ababa is a way of asserting their agency in moving forward with life, yet this agency is taking place in highly constrained circumstances which are strongly related to the gendered ideologies that affect their position in the household, their educational opportunities and their labour market perspectives. The paper is based on a qualitative study conducted in Ethiopia in 2014.

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受限制情况下的代理：埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴的青少年移民性工作者

摘要在过去的十年中，埃塞俄比亚越来越多的少女从乡村和乡镇迁往亚的斯亚贝巴，以改善自己和家人的生活。尽管女孩的迁移在某种程度上是一种“正常现象”，从历史上看，女孩是在从事家政工作，但埃塞俄比亚的主流论述主要是从女孩的贩运和剥削角度描述了女孩的迁移，特别是在从事性工作时。结果，青春期的移徙女孩沦为被动的受害者。在本文中，我们在移徙过程的三个“阶段”（即移徙的决定，他们在城市的生活以及他们的未来愿望）的三个“阶段”中分析了成年移徙性工作者的代理。我们认为，青春期女孩决定迁移到亚的斯亚贝巴是宣告她们的代理机构继续前进的一种方式，但这种代理机构是在高度受限的情况下发生的，这种情况与影响其在社会地位的性别意识形态密切相关。家庭，他们的受教育机会和他们的劳动力市场观点。该论文基于2014年在埃塞俄比亚进行的定性研究。