Sexuality, migrations and borders in contexts of a south-south integration

Abstract

This article inquires on the processes of differentiation, hierarchization and inclusion/exclusion of migrant populations in South-South migration contexts, and the role sexuality plays in these processes. Based on an ethnographic study about Peruvian and Colombian migrant women in the Ecuadorian sex sector, it analyzes the ways in which sexuality becomes a privileged site to re-imagine national differences and hierarchies in a globalized and regionally integrated world, and it explains how control regimes on migration and female sexuality come together to restore the idealized order of the nation.