Nicola Mai is a sociologist, an ethnographer and a filmmaker working as Professor of Sociology and Migration Studies at the Working Lives Research Institute of London Metropolitan University and at the Mediterranean Laboratory of Sociology - LAMES (MMSH/Aix -Marseille University). His academic writing and films focus on the experiences and perspectives of migrants selling sex and love in the globalized sex industry in order to live their lives. Between 2008 and 2010 he was the Principal Investigator of a two-year 'Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry' ESRC project which produced 100 qualitative interviews with women, men and transgender people and found that only a minority felt that they were trafficked. Nick also delivered several research projects and evaluations on the nexus between migration and the exploitation of vulnerable migrant groups for international organisations and local authorities including the IOM, Save the Children and the London Borough of Haringey. From kingston.academia.edu

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“Working in the sex industry is often a way for migrants to avoid the unrewarding and sometimes exploitative conditions they meet in non-sexual jobs.”
24 November 2009
http://www.scot-pep.org.uk/sites/default/files/download-files/lmu_migrant_workers_in_the_uk_sex_industry.pdf
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