This article challenges the notion that the organised sex worker movement originated in the Global North. Beginning in Havana, Cuba at the end of the nineteenth century, sex workers in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region have been organising for recognition and labour rights. This article focuses on some of the movement’s advances, such as the election of a sex worker to public office in the Dominican Republic, the system where Nicaraguan sex workers act as court-appointed judicial facilitators, the networks of sex worker organisations throughout the region, and cutting-edge media strategies used to claim social and labour rights. Sex workers are using novel strategies designed to disrupt the hegemonic social order; contest the inequalities, discrimination, and injustices experienced by women in the sex trade; provoke critical reflection; and raise the visibility of sex work advocacy. New challenges to the movement include the abolitionist movement, the conflation of all forms of sex work with human trafficking, and practices that seek to ‘rescue’ consenting adults from the sex trade.

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拉丁美洲和加勒比地区性工作者：运动中的收获与挑战

本文对有组织的性工作者运动起源于全球北方这一观念提出了挑战。从19世纪末在古巴哈瓦那开始，拉丁美洲和加勒比（LAC）地区的性工作者就一直在组织承认和劳工权利。本文着重介绍运动的一些进展，例如在多米尼加共和国选举一名性工作者担任公职，尼加拉瓜的性工作者担任法院任命的司法协助者的系统，该地区的性工作者组织网络，以及用于主张社会和劳工权利的尖端媒体策略。性工作者正在使用旨在破坏霸权社会秩序的新颖策略；反对妇女在性交易中遇到的不平等，歧视和不公正现象；引起批判性反思；并提高性工作倡导的知名度。该运动面临的新挑战包括废奴运动，各种形式的性工作与人口贩运的融合以及试图从性交易中“救助”成年成年人的做法。