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Wednesday, 21 September, 2011
Why so many prostitutes in Zurich are Hungarian
In July and August, this year 55 out of 56 applications for permits to work in the sex industry in Zurich were filed by Hungarian women. Why so many? The world of academia is getting involved but not the branch you might expect. The Institute of Geography in Bern is bringing new insights to the phenomenon. Researchers there started interviewing Hungarian prostitutes working on the streets of Zurich a year ago. WRS’s Pete Forster checks in with Jo Fahy in our Zurich bureau for more:
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