Stigma is a fundamental driver of adverse health outcomes. Although stigma is often studied
at the individual level to focus on how stigma influences the mental and physical health of …

In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic
by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health …

Intimate partner violence is prevalent among female sex workers (FSWs) in China, and it is
significantly associated with mental health problems among FSWs. However, limited studies …

Sex Worker Unionisation examines the challenges and opportunities offered by unionisation
for Sex Workers. Exploring unionisation projects undertaken by Sex Workers in most major …

This article argues that global panic over sex trafficking animates a mode of global
governmentality that fuses together otherwise contradictory registers of care and punishment …

Neoliberal urban transition in Bangalore city over the past two decades has unleashed
forces of gentrification and revanchism. Consequently, street-based sex workers, as an …

Transnational anti-trafficking networks seek to 'rescue'cisgender women who sell sex in
India. This article puzzles out why cis female sex workers might narrate themselves as …

Neoliberal urban transition in Bangalore city over the last two decades has unleashed forces
of gentrification and revanchism. Consequently, street-based sex workers, as an informal …

As the developmental state attempted to transform the urban slum in Kerala into a model
housing colony, narratives of decency, self-restraint, and sexual discipline became crucial …

This article uses ethnographic and interview methods to compare two groups of sex workers
in Bangalore, both of which formed during the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In this …