THE REPRESENTATIONS OF SPACE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IN ARGENTINA, AT THE BEGINNINGS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

MAGDALENA MORENO

Praga

Conferencia; V. European Geographies of Sexualities; 2019

The present paper analyzes the representations of space of human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Argentina,between 2008 and 2018. For this analysis, I worked with Lefebvre´s theory, especially with the three dimensionalanalysis of espatial production: spatial practices, representations of space and spaces of representation. I paid specialattention to the second concept to interpret the mapping produced by Ministerio Público Fiscal (the ministry thatis in charge of administers justice), the mass media and civil society organizations. The paper is organized in threemoments. At first, it describes, briefly, Henri Lefebvre?s conceptualization to analyze the spatiality and emphasizes theconcept of representations of space. In a second moment, analyzes the mapping made to represent the phenomenonof human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Argentina.Then, a critical reading about this mapping is made andthe spatiality that they create or construct is analyzed from a gender perspective. That perspective is required to dothe analysis because it allows to visibilize the gender oppression at the sexual exploitation. In a third moment and toconclude, some questions are opened in relation to the possible geographical imaginaries that can be configuredfrom the representations of the space of human trafficking of sexual exploitation in Argentina