methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales (May 2019)
Trajectories of professional insertion of migrants “trans”
Abstract
Our research questions the trajectories of professional insertion of “trans” migrants who have exercised prostitution in France. For the collection of data, we conducted 26 in- depth interviews and a hundred direct observations between 2014 and 2017. Among the results obtained we found that if there are several professional insertion devices, only a minority of “trans” migrants was able to insert themselves into the labor market due to the presence of multiple obstacles, especially during the stage of professional training ”trans” migrants who were able to enter the labor market had a permanent accompaniment from the associative. The environment mainly, which not only was alert to their situation of economic precariousness and emotional fragility, but also facilitated the meeting between them and some professional training’s centers, and between them and the labor market.
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