Brenda Oude Breuil is currently writing on the changing perception on sex work in Europe, and the role of the international human trafficking discourse therein, based on her years of research on (migration) prostitution in Marseille, France, and in the Netherlands. She is interested in the interaction between, on the one hand, the search for security in EU member states and the prostitution policies that emanate from that search and, on the other hand, the position of sex workers from (among others) Bulgaria and Roumania. She has participated as (methodological) expert and researcher in several international projects financed by the European Commission, among which a research on the possibilities of organized, voluntary return of trafficked children to their home countries (2007-2009) and a research on the financial organisation of human trafficking (Finoca 2.0, 2018). She did research on the exploitation of minors in the Netherlands in 2016, and on illegal tobacco trade in 2018-2019. Currently she continues her research on prostitution and human trafficking and further explores the themes of the different forms of exploitation of minors and self-regulation and exploitation within the global reproductive market (trade in egg cells, sperm, surrogacy et cetera). Brenda Oude Breuil is an innovative, qualitative researcher with expertise on studying hidden populations.

Interests

Cultural and sensory criminology; globalisation processes; transnational mobility & exploitation; (migration) prostitution; human trafficking; social exclusion.