Sex, AIDS, migration, and prostitution : human trafficking in the Caribbean

Abstract

Study of sexual tourism in Saint Martin/Sint Maarten, where prostitution is a widespread reality. Author argues that on this island where rapid economic development is based on the tourist industry and on offshore financial services, sexual relationships are determined by geopolitical and financial (neoliberal) interests that go beyond sexuality per se. She focuses on the precarious situation of the foreign prostitutes who have no working papers.

Keywords

• St Martin
• Netherlands Antilles
• French Caribbean
• prostitution
• AIDS
• migrations
• tourism