Here are the priority research areas for Project X, an initiative that aims to create social awareness on the issue of the sex workers in Singapore:
- Listing the various legislature, policies and policing matters relevant to sex work in Singapore
- Conducting a study of the motivation of sex workers and institutional factors supporting the sex work industry: understanding the push and pull factors
- Understanding the living/working conditions of sex work (required: volunteers who can speak Thai, Vietnamese, Bahasa Indonesia, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi)
- Understanding the spatial arrangement of sex work in Geylang
- Doing a content analysis of recent literature on sex work in Singapore
- Analyzing the strategies employed by sex worker organizations to support sex workers – international case studies
- Conducting a comparative law study on sex work legislature, policies and policing matters
- Conducting quantitative studies on sex work, such as needs assessments for sex workers in Singapore
- Conducting a street survey on attitudes/perceptions about sex work and sex workers
- Analyzing media discourse regarding how sex workers are portrayed and how the sex work issue is discussed in the mainstream
Please contact Ms Wong Yock Leng (scmsing@gmail.com) for more details.
Advertisement
