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Responding To Sex Workers’ Rights As Workers’ Rights: Reducing Sex Trafficking In The Dominican Republic, Corena Sharp

Western Libraries Undergraduate Research Award

This study examines the feasibility of using the unionization of sex workers as a way to combat sex trafficking in the Dominican Republic. The analysis ultimately disproves the hypothesis that unionization would be a feasible approach. The current literature challenges the dominant policies fighting sex trafficking enacted by the United States, but affirms the policy’s contributions to the cause. This paper seeks to address the targeted weaknesses of prevention and protection of victims by furthering the current literature that centers the marginalized agency of sex workers. By applying the theoretical framework of “sex work discourse,” this paper takes the approach …