Nicola Mai
is an Italian ethnographer and a filmmaker working as Professor of Sociology and Migration Studies at London Metropolitan University’s Working Lives Research Institute and the Mediterranean Laboratory of Sociology of Aix-Marseille University. His academic writing and films focus on the experiences and perspectives of migrants selling sex and love in the globalized sex industry in order to live their lives. Though experimental ethno-fictions and original research findings, he challenges the humanitarian politics of representation of the nexus between migration and sex work in terms of trafficking, while focusing on the ambivalent complexity of dynamics of exploitation and self-affirmation they implicate.