JCWI stands in complete solidarity with all workers, and is committed to a world in which everyone can make the choice to work safely and with dignity – and that includes sex workers.
We are unequivocal in our support for everyone who does sex work. We know that migrant sex workers – particularly those who are undocumented, trans and people of colour – are at the sharpest end of multiple forms of violence, including from  perpetrators, the state and borders.
Increasing the criminalisation of sex work puts people at greater risk of police brutality, raids on their workplace, and in the case of migrant sex workers, of being picked up by Immigration Enforcement and facing detention and deportation.
Modern Slavery legislation and border policing are often used as a pretext for violent raids on brothels and other workplaces used by sex workers – but too often, workers aren’t offered protection, and are instead targeted by the Home Office for deportation…