ABSTRACT Drawing on ethnography, this paper conceptualizes invisible mobilities by exploring the linkages between mobility, invisibility and hotel and residence based sex work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Since both are illegal in Bangladesh, hotel and residence based sex workers (HRSWs) become targets of the different laws and sex work related social stigma. We show, in this paper, how invisible mobilities is used to strategize and counter-enact against the existing exploitative gendered socio-political-legal regimes and practices involved in sex work. Invisible mobilities refers to the way HRSWs move in order to hide their occupation from society and the law. Invisibility is at the core of all these connections: It enables HRSWs to continue sex work and avoid exclusion from family and members of their communities. While making themselves invisible permits them to continue their daily ways to earn a living, it also reinforces the same social stigma they are constantly trying to avoid. In doing so, this paper reveals the political economy of sex work in the city and provides a new theoretical window to understand the connections between gender, mobility and the city, constructing a bridge between mobility and sex work studies literature.

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看不见的动静：污名，动静和女性性工作者对达卡市区空间的平凡的社会法律谈判

摘要利用民族志，本文探讨了孟加拉国达卡的流动性，隐身性以及酒店和住所性工作之间的联系，将无形的流动概念化。由于在孟加拉国都是非法的，因此以酒店和居所为基础的性工作者（HRSW）成为不同法律和性工作相关的社会污名化的目标。在本文中，我们展示了如何利用无形的动员来制定战略并反制涉及性工作的现有剥削性社会性别，政治法律制度和习俗。无形的迁移是指HRSW为了掩盖其职业对社会和法律的侵害而采取的行动方式。隐身性是所有这些联系的核心：它使HRSW能够继续进行性工作，避免被家庭和社区成员排斥。虽然使自己不可见，使他们能够继续每天的谋生方式，但也加剧了他们不断努力避免的那种社会污名。在此过程中，本文揭示了城市性工作的政治经济学，并为理解性别，流动性与城市之间的联系提供了新的理论窗口，在流动性与性工作研究文献之间架起了一座桥梁。