Of course not all sex workers are migrant workers, but many are, and current government thinking on making laws in this area are very much based on the need to take action against the trafficking of women for sex. There are nine bullet points in the initial report which says that most migrant sex workers were not forced or trafficked, but take up sex work because other work they can get is very poorly paid.
The main problems they face are their stigmatisation as sex workers and the lack of official documentation that opens them to abuse and violence. They report that most of their contacts with clients involve mutual respect and consent.
In Soho, many women work from their own or shared flats, and Westminster Council has been trying to get rid of these. Working from a flat is much safer than working on the street and also creates less nuisance. Those taking part in the parade were masked although I saw many of them before they put their masks on but otherwise they seemed very little different to any group of women one might meet on the streets of London, as this statement suggests.
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