Migración y trabajo sexual a partir de derechos sexuales y reproductivos en Puerto López, Meta

Abstract

This article of reflection starts from general considerations to specific elements, on what sex work carried out by migrant women implies, emphasizing this social dynamics as an attractive and dynamic resource, prefiguring a series of determined impacts, such as the migratory factor, which brings with it additional conditions for what has been job insecurity in sex work. Based on this, this document is strengthened by the postulates of different authors that address this social phenomenon from different points of view, which are intertwined with each other, to achieve a complete synthesis, in addition to this, it adheres as a first-hand source, an interview with a female sex worker of Venezuelan nationality, who resides in Puerto López-Meta, in order to complement the theoretical documentation with field work. For this article, a qualitative methodological

approach is established, using the semi- structured interview and the documentary journey as an analysis tool, in order to elucidate the state and social shortcomings that are reproduced on a daily basis in the collective environment, for this the rights are highlighted sexual and reproductive factors as the basis of the silenced demands of sex work, later it becomes evident what it entails to exercise sex work with respect to health, living conditions in general and the various factors of inequity that feed on the social environment to which they migrate: inequality, misinformation, job insecurity, among other problems that deepen when there is sexual and gender discrimination. This conglomeration of situations generates a pertinent scenario for social study, emphasizing an understanding of what it means to be a woman, a migrant and a sex worker.