« En femme » à la gare Saint-Charles : la prostitution des Algériens à Marseille

The arrival in Marseilles of the first transvestites from Algeria in the 1980s upset the structure of local prostitution on the fringes of a neighbourhood where an internationally-known Maghreb commercial organization had settled. This contribution intends to break away from the spectacular dimensio...

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Main Author: Laurent Gaissad
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: CNRS Éditions 2010-12-01
Series:L’Année du Maghreb
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/873
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description The arrival in Marseilles of the first transvestites from Algeria in the 1980s upset the structure of local prostitution on the fringes of a neighbourhood where an internationally-known Maghreb commercial organization had settled. This contribution intends to break away from the spectacular dimension of exotic identities or the risks associated with AIDS, to return to the itineraries of transvestites, showing that they cannot be viewed as mere displacements in space, from one bank of the Mediterranean to another. They materialize primarily in the distance that separates the world of standards, revealing original biographies often marked by radical transitions from one situation to another in daily life, and from an ethics of secrecy associated with public disorder that may result from these itineraries in terms of “gender” and sexuality.
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« En femme » à la gare Saint-Charles : la prostitution des Algériens à Marseille
L’Année du Maghreb
migration
prostitution
Marseilles
HSH
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title « En femme » à la gare Saint-Charles : la prostitution des Algériens à Marseille
title_full « En femme » à la gare Saint-Charles : la prostitution des Algériens à Marseille
title_fullStr « En femme » à la gare Saint-Charles : la prostitution des Algériens à Marseille
title_full_unstemmed « En femme » à la gare Saint-Charles : la prostitution des Algériens à Marseille
title_short « En femme » à la gare Saint-Charles : la prostitution des Algériens à Marseille
title_sort en femme a la gare saint charles la prostitution des algeriens a marseille
topic migration
prostitution
Marseilles
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travestis
url https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/873
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