Katie Cruz

Katie Cruz is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. Her research engages with sex worker rights activists’ demands for rights, as well as criticisms of the purportedly human rights-based strategy of anti-trafficking. She has published research on the possibilities and limitations of labour and social security rights for sex workers and erotic dancers in the UK.

Sex work, labour unfreedom, and the law

‘Free’ labour exists when it is guarded by a system of rights and protections. This places the vast majority of migrant and citizen sex workers at the extreme end of unfreedom.

By Katie Cruz

/ 11 Jul 2018

Sex work, labour unfreedom, and the law

‘Free’ labour exists when it is guarded by a system of rights and protections. This places the vast majority of migrant and citizen sex workers at the extreme end of unfreedom.

By Katie Cruz

/ 11 Jul 2018

Centring the state in our critiques of trafficking

Prevailing accounts of a division between sex work and ‘trafficking’ obscure the routine fact of economic compulsion and exploitation, and their basis in the law. We must centre immigration law as part of more ambitious political enquiries and actions.

By Katie Cruz

/ 19 Nov 2014

Centring the state in our critiques of trafficking

By Katie Cruz

/ 19 Nov 2014