2017/01/10 by Tara Lyons, Andrea Krüsi, Leslie Pierre +2 · 49 citations
Engineering · Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Affect (linguistics) #Civil engineering #Computer security #Context (archaeology) #Criminology #Displacement (psychology) #Engineering #Ethnography #Gender studies #Gentrification #Geography #HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk #Harassment #Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) #Psychology #Sex work #Sex work and related issues #Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology #Social psychology #Sociology #Vulnerability (computing) #Work (physics)
paper · open access · doi:10.1177/1363460716676990
published in Sexualities 20(8), 881-903 (SAGE Publishing)
openalex publication_date 2017/01/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The objective of this study was to investigate how environmental and structural changes to a trans outdoor work environment impacted sex workers in Vancouver, Canada. The issue of changes to the work area arose during qualitative interviews with 33 trans sex workers. In response, ethnographic walks that incorporated photography were undertaken with trans sex workers. Changes to the work environment were found to increase vulnerabilities to client violence, displace trans sex workers, and affect policing practices. Within a criminalized context, construction and gentrification enhanced vulnerabilities to violence and harassment from police and residents.