Go to the centre of Mexico City after dark and you can see the women start to colonise the district.
The grey suits that are everywhere during daylight hours give way to multi-coloured miniskirts as the time arrives for a different kind of product to be traded.
There are not enough street corners to accommodate all the women. Instead, there are rows of them along the main boulevards.
The parade of women means the male clients can stay in the dry warmth of their cars as they make their impersonal choice.
One estimate says there are 3,000 prostitutes in the city at any one time.
But what happens when they get older and can no longer walk the streets?
One answer lies behind an unremarkable brown door of a two-storey block in the city's poorer northern neighbourhood.
Tranquil
Push open the door and you walk into what is believed to be the world's first retirement home for prostitutes
A fountain in its central court yard gives it the tranquil feeling of a home for pensioners in Florida.
Here all of the 30 women who have so far moved in are former workers in the sex industry.
The house is the idea of Carmen Munoz, herself a prostitute for 20 years.
"It's taken me a long time to get this place opened", she says. "We had to convince the local government and the police it was needed. But when I saw elderly women lying in the streets with nowhere to go, I knew I had to act".
An enlightened city mayor and private donors are paying for the home, Carmen says.
As we talk, one woman shuffles by on a walking frame. Carmen turns to me and whispers: "She's 90 and spent 40 years as a working girl".
Set around a central square with walls painted in blue and yellow, the house is called Casa Xochiquetzal. It is named after the Aztec goddess of beauty and sexual love.
Solitude
We go into the room of Maria, 75. On one wall hangs a small picture of Jesus. A collection of six black, brown and blue hand bags are pinned to another.
It is a sign, she tells me, of her determination to retain some femininity in a career of cold, anonymous, encounters.
After providing a lifetime of comfort for others she, like all those here, was condemned to a life of solitude [Einöde, Einsamkeit] herself.
Later, we see other women and more rooms, most of them equipped with nothing but a bed.
Any money the women earned was long ago siphoned off by pimps and corrupt police officers.
I see a young boy and girl playing by the fountain. Carmen tells me there is an occasional visit by a grandchild. But the sons, daughters, brothers and sisters of the women stay away.
"In a country like Mexico which is very conservative and religious, those friends and family don't want to know", she says.
Martha, 74, has not seen her two sons for years. The house now provides the dignified sanctuary [Zufluchtsstätte] so long denied her.
"I have many comforts here," she says. "There's food and a roof over my head. I don't want much, just security and to be with friends".
Until now, Martha and the other residents were proof that the sex industry had a forgotten demographic: elderly, former practitioners, discarded by the cruel forces of a market that penalises the imperfections of old age.
But after a life of violence, discrimination and exploitation, these women have at last found people who are showing them compassion.
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"This exceptional book makes several key contributions to the field and shows how freedom and anxiety, and the market and morality, tensely coexist in the business of sex. . . . Kelly's analysis is conveyed through vivid portraits of the lives of sex workers, showing that the women involved are neither victims nor heroines but something else: actors caught between agency and constraint."--Roger N. Lancaster, author of The Trouble with Nature
"In this tour de force of feminist anthropology, Patty Kelly gives her heart to the remarkable women who toil in the bawdy sweatshops of the Zona Galactica, a 'reformed' red-light district in the Chiapas capital of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. In fact, as Kelly shows, it is just the ultimate low-wage industrial district."--Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and In Praise of Barbarians
"The clarity of Kelly's perspective is neither apologetic, nor presumptive (as is usually the case); her focus is always on the political context of these women's lives. Patty Kelly writes like a poet and novelist, so much so that this work begs to be a movie."--Carol Leigh, a.k.a. "Scarlot Harlot," author of Unrepentant Whore
DESCRIPTION
In this groundbreaking ethnographic study, Patty Kelly examines the lives of the women who work in the Zona Galactica, a state-run brothel in Chiapas's capital city. By delving into lives that would otherwise go unremarked, Kelly documents the modernization of the sex industry during the neoliberal era in the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez and illustrates how state-regulated sex became part of a broader effort by government officials to bring modernity to Chiapas, one of Mexico's poorest and most conflicted states. Kelly's innovative approach locates prostitution in a political-economic context by treating it as work. Most valuably, she conveys her analysis through vivid portraits of the lives of the sex workers themselves and shows how the women involved are neither victims nor heroines.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Map of Chiapas
1. Modern Sex in a Modern City
2. Hidden in Plain Sight: Street Prostitution
3. Inside the Galactic Zone: Regulating Sex, Regulating Women
4. Convergence: Panistas, Prostitutes, and Peasants
5. "It Began Innocently": Women of the Ambiente
6. Sellers and Buyers
7. The Secrets We Keep: Sex, Work, Stigma
8. Final Thoughts: Understanding, Imagining
Dr. Kelly's research focuses upon culture, power, and inequality in Latin America. She has done ethnographic research on legal prostitution in urban Mexico, critically analyzing state regulated prostitution in the context of neoliberalism. The results of this work were recently published by the University of California Press as the book Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel. Dr. Kelly's current research among Central American transmigrants in southern Mexico focuses upon border policy, human rights, and the political economy of migration.
Andererseits wird lieber im armen Nachbarland geforscht, weil es dafür Geld gibt und das politisch nicht so brisant ist wie im eigenen Land, wo derzeit eher nur der sog. Menschenhandelsdiskurs opportun ist.
for those of you who got scholarships, and those who are otherwise
getting to the AIDS Conference in Mexico in August, please take note
that their is a pre-conference organised by APROASE (sex worker organisation in Mexico) on behalf of NSWP.
This meeting will take place on *July 31 and August 1.*
APROASE have money to support extra nights accommodation for about 50
people in total.
*So if you have a scholarship or will be attending you need to inform them that you want to
arrive early to attend the pre-conference meeting before they book your flights.*
For everyone who is planing to attend, please reply to apnswbkk@gmail.com and aproase@yahoo.com so we
can start getting an idea of how many will be coming.
Folgende Projekte bekommen eine Finanzierung
um sich bei der Welt AIDS Konferenz in Mexiko zu präsentieren:
SHARP GRANTEES REPRESENTED AT IAC
SHARP would like to congratulate the following grantees that have
had their abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2008
International AIDS Conference to be held in Mexico City in August:
-The Sex Workers' Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN) in Central and
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Sex workers´ experience of police
raids and violence in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
(CEE/CA): implications for HIV transmission (oral presentation)
- Johns Hopkins Center for Health and Human Rights, University of
Malawi, and the Centre for the Development of People: A Cross-
Sectional Evaluation of the HIV Prevalence and HIV-related risk
factors of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Malawi (poster
presentation)
-Service Workers in Group (SWING, Thailand): A new model for peer
led prevention among male sex workers in Bangkok (poster
presentation)
Früher war sie ein Kind der Straße, heute ist sie die Mutter der Sexworker und Kunden.
She started sex work at age 19. Now she is 61 years old.
The city recognizes the own pace.
Alejandra has a son.
She says that the kiss is love and from a prostitute the customers want only sex for money.
Alejandra talks about herself and her life, and those eyes, black and deep.
She continues to work, walking down the road. She is not afraid doing her work...
Alexandra, die auch auf der Welt AIDS Konferenz in Wien dabei war ist Vizepräsidentin des Global Network of Sex Workers Projekts (NSWP)
MEXICO CITY -- Police freed 62 female victims of a forced-prostitution ring in Mexico City, including a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said.
The women complained they were forced to work as prostitutes in the capital's downtown sector and had to hand over their earnings to a group of pimps, Mexico City chief prosecutor Miguel Mancera said Monday.
Five men and two women were detained in raids on five bars and are being held pending investigation for alleged human trafficking, organized crime, pimping and corruption of a minor.
Prosecutors said they are investigating the suspects, who range in age from 19 to 62, to see whether any came from Tenancingo, a town in central Tlaxcala state where Mexico's forced-prostitution trade is believed to be centered.
Mancera's office said one of the victims told police that a man had befriended her in another state and offered to find her work in Mexico City. Upon arriving in the capital, she and other women were forced to prostitute themselves.
Police found out about the ring in April when the woman wound up in the hospital with a potential miscarriage and decided to tell police.
Mancera said the women were forced to have sex in tiny bedrooms smaller than 6 1/2 feet (6 meters) a side. They would charge between $9 and $26 and paid pimps $4.
The place, known as "La Pasarela," or "The Runway," was in business for decades.
Ciudad Juarez: Massenfestnahme bei Razzia gegen Menschenhandel
Am Freitag (22. Juli) und Samstag (23. Juli) fand eine großangelegte Razzia gegen Menschenhändler in der nordmexikanischen Grenzstadt Ciudad Juárez statt.
Die mexikanische Bundespolizei erklärte am Sonntag, dem 24. Juli, es seien 500 Männer und 530 Frauen festgenommen worden. 20 minderjährige entführte Mädchen konnten befreit werden.
2010 wurden allein in der Stadt Ciudad Juárez 59 Mädchen verschleppt, im Bundesstaat Chihuahua 48 weitere Frauen und Mädchen.
Menschenrechtsgruppen hatten schon lange auf die unhaltbaren Zustände hingewiesen. Jahrelang war das Schicksal entführter Frauen im alltäglichen Drogenkrieg untergegangen.
Die Frauen werden als billige Arbeitskräfte verkauft oder der Prostitution zugeführt. Oft endet ihr Schicksal mit dem Tod.
Mord ist in Ciudad Juárez alltäglich - bei durchschnittlich sieben Tötungsdelikten am Tag.
Kann mir jemand eine Argentur empfehlen für in Mexikonzu arbeiten?
Ich war schon mal in Mexiko im Urlaub und ist einfach Traumhaft dort.
Hatte eineArbeitskolegin wo in Acapulco gearbeitet hat und war super
Zufrieden, leider arbeiten wir nicht mehr zusammen darum
Weiss ich nicht wie wie die Getzte sind wegen Bewiligungen
Und Visum.
Lg
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