"To assert simply that sex work and trafficking are completely different is to defend only documented sex workers who are not experiencing exploitation but say nothing about those exploited at the intersection of migration and the sex industry. As a slogan, "sex work is not trafficking" suggests that the current mode of anti-trafficking policy is broadly correct and merely - on occasion- misfires. [...] Fundamentally, the claim that sex work and trafficking are different operates as a way of refusing to talk about "trafficking", since such conversations are often used to attack us when we organise; people reach for any easy way to shut the topic down. But sex workers should start welcoming such discussions. They are an opportunity to talk about how border enforcement makes people more vulnerable to exploitation and violence as they seek to migrate - an analysis which should be central to sex workers' rights activism."
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