Access Denied: Sex workers’ exclusion from COVID-19 relief in the United States

Mariah Grant

doi:10.14197/atr.2012232110

Access Denied: Sex workers’ exclusion from COVID-19 relief in the United States

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Mariah Grant

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https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.2012232110

Abstract

This short article provides an overview of the US government’s response to COVID-19 and the exclusion of sex workers from pandemic relief. It details the impacts of this exclusion, including how sex workers and advocates were forced to prioritise emergency service provision over longer-term policy goals. The article concludes that the exclusion of sex workers from COVID-19 relief is part of the US government’s broader history of discriminating against people involved in the sex trades and hindering advancements in policies to protect sex workers’ human rights.

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Mariah Grant

Mariah Grant (she/her) is a human rights and migration expert currently working as a freelance consultant on projects related to sex work decriminalisation, sex work in humanitarian crises and conflict zones, and human trafficking prevention and service provision for survivors. In her prior role as the Research and Advocacy Director at the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center, she oversaw the development of original research on human rights issues affecting people involved in the sex trades as well as efforts to decriminalise sex work at the local and state levels and improve sex work-related federal policy in the US.

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29-09-2023

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Grant, M. (2023). Access Denied: Sex workers’ exclusion from COVID-19 relief in the United States. Anti-Trafficking Review, (21), 145–150. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.2012232110

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No. 21 (2023): Special Issue - COVID-19: Labour, Migration, and Exploitation

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