View this email in your browser [https://wiiw.ac.at/files/mailings/event-201806080853-en.html]   Dear colleague, we cordially invite you to the following event: THE EU-CEE COUNTRIES AND THE EUROPEAN SEX TRADE RÉKA KINGA PAPP Media researcher, journalist and performer, Budapest THURSDAY, 14 JUNE 2018, 5:00 PM (17:00 CEST) wiiw, Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, lecture hall (entrance from the ground floor) EU-CEE countries are major players in the European domestic sex trade, not only as host countries of exploitative sex tourism and suppliers of domestic ‘clients’, but also as providers of a majority of labour force in Western European countries’ sex markets. An intensive course of gentrification in several urban regions of the EU-CEE countries produced an ever expanding housing crisis. As housing costs skyrocket, many locals are forced out of their original fields of labour or neighbourhoods, which is one important reason for ending up on the sex market of their home countries or those of the West. Local legislations tend to burden sex workers with difficulties, threatening them with excessive fining, persecution and the possibility of forcing their children into state care. While Western tabloid discourses suggest eastern morals are disrupting their cultures, in reality there are a series of social troubles in the background of the booming sex industry. ...more [https://wiiw.ac.at/the-eu-cee-countries-and-the-european-sex-trade-e-387.htm...] WE KINDLY ASK YOU TO REGISTER [https://wiiw.ac.at/bc-e-er-387.html] for the event. Participation is free of charge. Best regards, Sandor Richter [https://wiiw.ac.at/sandor-richter-s-14.html] _Organiser_            Robert Stehrer [https://wiiw.ac.at/robert-stehrer-s-16.html] _Scientific Director_ wiiw The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies Rahlgasse 3, 1060 Vienna, Austria wiiw@wiiw.ac.at, wiiw.ac.at [https://wiiw.ac.at] T: +43 1 533 66 10 [tel:+4315336610] [http://www.facebook.com/wiiw.economic.studies] [http://www.twitter.com/wiiw_news] [http://www.linkedin.com/company/vienna-institute-for-international-economic-...] [http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNuSfsgzgBsIf7AaH8Vk-Q] [https://wiiw.ac.at/rss.php] Copyright ©2018 wiiw, all rights reserved.