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A Thai woman sits alone behind the blinds in a brothel in a forest in Northern Denmark. Shes waiting for customers. Shes been selling sex in Denmark for two years now. She has no legal papers. Its hard and lonely work, but she earns well. When a car drives up the gravel track behind the house, she looks out through a crack in the blinds. She keeps an eye open for the police. Shes scared of being discovered and deported to Thailand.
Migration and migrant sex work very often are long-distance debt restructuring.
In her two years in Denmark, shes taken her family out of a 20-year-long mire of debt. A hospital admission for her father suffering from cancer, a failed m…
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