Friday, February 19, 2010

N3− Polar Or Nonpolar?

prostitution, hypocrisy and the Aliens Act Xenophobia and crime


Article published in September 2009 in Deia, Diario de Noticias of Giputzkoa, Gara, Begitu, Women of the World, Women in Red, E-Women and the Public as well as various feminist blogs.


prostitution, hypocrisy and the Aliens Act

On June Fernandez, a member of SOS Racism, Bizkaia, Bilbao.
A sordid photos released last week by a leading English newspaper that showed scenes of explicit sex in the heart of Barcelona have reopened the debate on how institutions must act of prostitution. A necessary debate, but unfortunately, is being treated as a mere problem of public order. What worries the public is not the situation of multiple discrimination, invisibility and violations in which women live, mostly illegal immigrants, prostitutes, but their neighborhoods are interspersed with scenes look marginal.
Euskadi is no stranger to this debate. Bilbao City Council, for example, has spent months preparing an ordinance in the likeness of Barcelona. The goal, once again, not to protect Nigerian women without papers that offer sexual services in the streets of our city, but keep them dispersed and hidden (which makes the public health intervention with them) to prevent tarnish the image of the town. But the pictures of Barcelona have also served to reopen the appellant discussion between passes if the final solution to abolish or regulate prostitution. Those pushing to empty the streets of women engaged in prostitution claim the latter. In our view, however, the abolition versus regulation debate has been overtaken by social reality. It makes no sense to speak of regulation when about 90% of prostitutes are immigrants, and almost all practicing in the street are in an irregular situation. Read

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