2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research for measures to protect safety and human rights of workers in the sex industry
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24510378
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Gender
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
AOYAMA Kaoru 神戸大学, 国際文化学研究科, 教授 (70536581)
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| Research Collaborator |
OKUBO Kaori
KANAME Yukiko
HAJIHATA Atsuko
HAMANAKA Yohei
MIYAGAI Maki
MIYATA Ryo
YAGI Kasumi
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | セックスワーク / セックスワーカー / 性風俗産業 / 人権 / 参加行動調査 / 社会的排除 / 人身取引対策 / 国際比較 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The major findings of this research are as follows: after the 2005 amendment of Entertainment Businesses Law, the so-called 'clean-up' strategies, or more stringent policing, had been spread in the target red-right districts; those who responded positively to our outreach and peer-education methods were mostly the ones working for sex parlors with better conditions; this could be showing that those who were working in so-labeled 'not-clean' premises became more vulnerable in the new division within the legal section of the sex industry; and undocumented foreign sex workers developed even stronger tendency to avoid contacts with outsiders.
The result coincided with the argument of sex-worker organisations in other countries and some UN organisations, including WHO, stating that criminalising sex trade leading to make sex workers more vulnerable should be avoided. Thus, this research concluded that stringent policing should be avoided in order to protect sex workers' rights and safety.
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| Free Research Field |
社会学
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