“Brazil has its eye on you”: sexual panic and the threat of sex tourism in Rio de Janeiro during the FIFA World Cup, 2014

Blanchette, Thaddeus Gregory; Silva, Ana Paula Da

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“…The business was declared a site of child sexual exploitation and forced to permanently close even as no arrest and/or formal charge was ever made (see Figure 2 ). In fact, in 2014, not a single case of child sexual exploitation was brought forth for litigation to the State of Rio de Janeiro ( 46 ). In 2016, one incident of child sexual exploitation involved twelve men that were arrested and convicted and included a municipal councillor and federal deputy from the military police ( 47 ), another involved a military police coronel ( 48 ).…”

Section: Trafficking (In) Securities: Fifa and Fantasies Of Rescuementioning

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Rights, not rescue: trafficking (in)securities at the sport mega-event

Oliver,

De Lisio

2023

Front. Sports Act. Living

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We examine the impact of fantasies used in the redevelopment of sport mega-event cities on host communities; particularly as related to the male-dominated FIFA World Cup and forced prostitution. We start with a discussion of event fantasies, particularly those that circulate in relation to humanitarian aid and the alleged involvement of women and children in forced labour and sexual exploitation. We trace these fantasies across several FIFA host cities since the 2006 FIFA World Cup, hosted in Germany, to leverage continual and perpetuate attention (and profit) through the non-profit industrial complex. These fantasies have facilitated and coordinated collaborative consensus amongst state authorities and allies to act in a meaningful manner even as the evidence of forced prostitution is still scant—while the realities of people that continue to be subjected to violent and exploitative labour in the construction of stadia, athlete recruitment, or equipment and apparel industries are seldom addressed. We do this to question the lived impact of policies and personalities of rescue on people engaged, consensually, in erotic labour within host cities, that are often made target of rescue intervention. The figure of the proverbial sex slave, as a highly racialized and hypersexualized trope, is mobilized through the sport mega-event to further police the bodies of all women in labour and migration. We end with a cautious message to future host cities, particularly cities implicated in the 2026 FIFA World Cup within Mexico, Canada, and the United States, of the highly-profitable and politically-advantageous rhetoric of damsel in distress.

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Rights, not rescue: trafficking (in)securities at the sport mega-event

Oliver,

De Lisio

2023

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…Obviously, the leadership of Davida and the RBP s turn towards legal protection for sex workers created much controversy, both within and without the prostitutes' movement. Radical feminists and religious groups who sought to abolish prostitution quickly demonized the initiative, at a time when Brazil was beginning to undergo a moral panic regarding trafficking of persons and the sexual exploitation of children prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, both of which would be held in Brazil (Blanchette and DaSilva 2016;Mitchell 2016). At the same time, Gabriela had called for sex worker organizations to cut their relationship with Brazil's Health Ministry unless the federal government began to take seriously sex worker demands on health, safety, and labor issues outside of the realm of combatting HIV-AIDS (Murray et al 2019a(Murray et al , 2019b.…”

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“…Because of the follow-up work by Davida and Transrevolução members and their allies, 9 the anti-trafficking and child welfare organizations working with the Olympic Committee for Rio 2016 refocused much of their activities on other forms of labor exploitation during the Olympics. This attitude almost certainly helped to significantly diminish the number of child laborers encountered by researchers during the Games (Blanchette and DaSilva 2016).…”

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A Place at the Table: Sex Workers and Allies in the Redefinition of Brazil’s Anti-Trafficking Law

Blanchette

2022

Social Sciences

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The present article is a brief account of the representational politics surrounding the insertion of the Brazilian prostitutes’ movement into anti-trafficking policy-making, following the 2013 death of Gabriela Leite, one of the founders and principal leaders of the movement. Leite’s death left an organizational hole in the attempts by one of Brazil’s oldest sex worker NGOs, Davida, to secure a place for sex workers at the policy-making table in the rewriting of the country´s anti-trafficking laws. Here, we relate how sex workers, academics, journalists, and activists came together to attempt to patch that hole, successfully fighting for sex worker representation in the governmental organs overseeing the struggle against human trafficking in Rio and, more broadly, Brazil. The re-organization of this project following the death of Gabriela highlights how multifaceted alliances between differently positioned actors can leverage the visibility and power of sex workers in culture and politics, creating opportunities to implement policies that favor prostitute rights.

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Roving consumers of pleasure: at the conceptual intersection of sport tourism and sex tourism

Rheenen

Roberson

2023

Journal of Sport & Tourism

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“Brazil has its eye on you”: sexual panic and the threat of sex tourism in Rio de Janeiro during the FIFA World Cup, 2014

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Rights, not rescue: trafficking (in)securities at the sport mega-event

Rights, not rescue: trafficking (in)securities at the sport mega-event

A Place at the Table: Sex Workers and Allies in the Redefinition of Brazil’s Anti-Trafficking Law

Roving consumers of pleasure: at the conceptual intersection of sport tourism and sex tourism

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