Between Prostitution, Migration and Climate Crisis: The Same Patriarchal Logics
As regards the prostitution, the aim is showing the logics that underlie the regulamentarism, one of the principal legal models of regulation of the phenomenon; this form of regulation of prostitution aims to protect the legal sex work. It is intended to show how the division between regular sex workers and illegal prostitutes, divided in turn between criminals and victims of trafficking, reflects the gender roles and the responsabilization classically imposed by the patriarchal capitalist society.
Secondly, it’s possible to observe some similarities between the regulamentarism and the legal models adopted in Europe to regulate the phenomenon of immigration; it happens through the division between regular migrants and irregular migrants, with the latter also divided between criminals and victims (of trafficking, war...). Also in this case, the forms of responsabilization and incapacitation of individuals follow the patriarchal logics traditionally imposed on women.
Thirdly, the same logics are present in the appropriation and exploitation of territories and natural resources: according to the western civilization anthropocentric perspective, the incapacitation of non-humans is assumed as necessary for the free appropriation of "natural resources". Yet, incapacitation and responsabilization affect the inhabitants of the places where these resources are present. They are divided into two groups: when the appropriation of resources proceeds smoothly and the resulting exploitation can be regulated, the inhabitants can be tolerated and considered capable of intending and willing in their choice to consent to the exploitation. Otherwise, the inhabitants are considered criminal when they oppose this exploitation and for this reason must be suppressed. After the exploitation, if the territories plundered are no longer habitable their inhabitants are classified as "protected”.