Biography
Nicola Mai is an ethnographer and filmmaker working as Professor of Sociology and Migration Studies at Kingston University, London. His main research interest is the negotiation of gender, sexuality and subjectivity through the migration process, with particular reference to the globalised sex industry as a contested and ambivalent space of control and autonomy. In his academic work and films, Nick problematises prevailing understandings of the global sex trade as characterised by exploitation and victimisation, by showing the complexity of the subjective investments of the people involved. In his Sex Work Trilogy, he explores differents meeting experiences between migration and the sex industry.
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Caught (2021)
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Travel (2016)
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Anthropologist
Samira (2014)
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Normal (2012)
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