The vicious circle of violence: Trans and gender-diverse people, migration, and sex work

B. Fedorko, L. Berredo

This report, in continuation with the Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) project, pertains to the TMM data, collected since 2008, and focuses on trans and gender-diverse sex workers, broadly highlighting current trends contributing to the marginalization and exclusion of trans and sex worker communities, such as the criminalization of migration and sex work, the use of punitive approaches to tackling poverty, homelessness, and drug use, increasingly precarious living and working conditions, and growing racial, gender, and economic disparities all over the world. Furthermore, it builds on community-based violence documentation and research carried out in recent years in local contexts and on an international level, including TGEU's Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide (TvT) and ProTrans projects.