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Mantilla Herrera Álvaro et al., « Voluntary processes of entering the sex trade of prostituted women in Ecuador », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.5281/zenodo.14866721
The aim of this article is to describe and understand the socio-spatial contexts that violently facilitate the recruitment of prostituted women. Specifically, we are interested in unravelling the voluntary processes that unfold in these places and that make it acceptable for a woman to be trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The ethnographic research has two stages: a first one that took place between 2015 and 2017 in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas (Ecuador) and a second stage since 2022 and still ongoing in Imbabura, Carchi, Sucumbíos and Pichincha (Ecuador). Three types of recruitment have been recorded: recruitment by men through seduction; recruitment by women who are already prostitutes; and certain self-recruitment strategies. Although these experiences are characterised by a certain capacity for agency on the part of women, these movements undoubtedly obey capitalist and patriarchal logics which, in this case, are redefined by the subjects in their different roles.