Identity management, negotiation and resistance among women in the sex trade in London, Ontario

Orchard, Treena; Farr, Sara; Macphail, Susan; Wender, Cass; Young, Dawn

doi:10.1080/13691058.2012.750760

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“…Many of our researchers described what would be recognised as 'shedding' rituals (Orchard et al, 2013), although few participants used this term themselves. These rituals often incorporated space creation with elements of self-care.…”

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The emotional labour of doctoral criminological researchers

Waters

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Fowler

et al. 2020

Methodological Innovations

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Embarking upon empirical qualitative research can be a daunting and emotional task, particularly for those who are new to research and for those who research vulnerable groups and emotive topics. Doctoral criminological researchers transect these realms, often making their research experiences acutely emotional and challenging. In addition, researchers must be able to perform emotional labour as an important part of their professional practice. Based on 30 semi-structured interviews, this is the first study to explicitly explore the emotional labour of criminological researchers. Using the lens of emotional labour, the performance and impact of undertaking qualitative data collection in doctoral research is examined. From the interview data, three main themes are discussed: emotional labour, the consequences of performing that emotional labour and coping mechanisms to deal with those consequences. The article concludes with recommendations around support and training for PhD candidates, their supervisors and the higher education sector more broadly.

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Section: Coping Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The emotional labour of doctoral criminological researchers

Waters

Westaby

Fowler

et al. 2020

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“…We paid particular attention to data that informed our project objectives and theoretical framework, and identified six primary themes that provided detailed insights about sex work and the women's experiences: sex work entry, types, and clientele (Orchard et al, 2012); identity negotiation and the social construction of sex work (Orchard et al 2013a); violence (Orchard et al, 2013b); social and health service provision; and childhood and family dynamics. The present paper features the data related to this last data cluster, and the themes presented constitute the issues and experiences mentioned most often across the interviews with the women who felt comfortable talking about these issues and provided rich insights into their childhoods and early family lives.…”

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Expanding the scope of inquiry: exploring accounts of childhood and family life among sex workers in London, Ontario

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Farr²,

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et al. 2014

The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality

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This article presents findings from a qualitative research project that sought to explore the organization of sex work and women's experiences in the trade in a medium-size Canadian city. Drawing upon 14 semistructured life-history interviews with women between 24 and 60 years of age who have taken part in sex work, primarily street-based, this discussion examines the women's accounts of childhood and early family experiences. Findings related to childhood highlight the role of the women's mothers, fathers, and a range of non-normative conditions in shaping their social experience of childhood. Our participants' accounts of family dynamics feature discussions of loving familial relations, inter-generational involvement in the sex trade, and feelings of exclusion. These findings support existing studies on childhood and family experiences among street-based sex workers and contribute new data to this relatively under-developed area of study within the sex work literature. One of the most unique insights is that although the women's accounts reveal difficult experiences across the spheres of socialization related to childhood and family, they did not identify them as the root cause of their sex trade participation. We discuss the practical significance of this finding for health care and social service professionals (i.e., case worker, support staff, community clinic workers), who work with women in the sex trade but may be uncertain how to broach and/or navigate the sensitive issues of childhood and family in their work with these marginalized groups of women.KEY WORDS: childhood, family dynamics, sex work, qualitative methods, marginalized women Acknowledgements: We thank the women of My Sister's Place, including our participants, who generously and with strong spirit shared their meaningful experiences with us. We also thank UWO's Academic Development Fund for the funds to conduct this research.

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“…The diverse legal contexts in which sex work occurs have further exacerbated the hidden and hard to reach nature of sex work groups, wherein many sex workers (off and on street) go to great lengths to hide their activities from mainstream society to avoid discrimination or arrest (Benoit et al, 2005; Bowen, 2014; Bowen & Bungay, 2015; Bruckert, 2012; Koken, 2012; Orchard, Farr, Macphail, Wender, & Young, 2013; Pheterson, 1993)—circumstances which may impede their willingness to engage as research participants and potentially exacerbate underrepresentation. Furthermore, the fluidity in which sex workers may move between sex work and other paid work activities throughout their life course (Bowen, 2014) presents additional barriers to ascertaining how to locate those engaged in the industry.…”

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Addressing Underrepresentation in Sex Work Research

2015

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Men, transgender people, and those working in off-street locales have historically been underrepresented in sex work health research. Failure to include all sections of sex worker populations precludes comprehensive understandings about a range of population health issues, including potential variations in the manifestation of such issues within and between population subgroups, which in turn can impede the development of effective services and interventions. In this article, we describe our attempts to define, determine, and recruit a purposeful sample for a qualitative study examining the interrelationships between sex workers' health and the working conditions in the Vancouver off-street sex industry. Detailed is our application of ethnographic mapping approaches to generate information about population diversity and work settings within distinct geographical boundaries. Bearing in mind the challenges and the overwhelming discrimination sex workers experience, we scope recommendations for safe and effective purposeful sampling inclusive of sex workers' heterogeneity.

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Identity management, negotiation and resistance among women in the sex trade in London, Ontario

Cited by 15 publications

References 16 publications

The emotional labour of doctoral criminological researchers

The emotional labour of doctoral criminological researchers

Expanding the scope of inquiry: exploring accounts of childhood and family life among sex workers in London, Ontario

Addressing Underrepresentation in Sex Work Research

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