Kimberly Walters

Research

Kimberly’s research has documented the lives of Telugu-speaking sex workers in India since 2009, analyzing, in particular, the injustices they face due to anti-trafficking practices.

• Rescued from Rights: Sex Workers and the Politics of Anti-trafficking in India book · in production, university of illinois press
• ‘What God Grants, the Priest Obstructs’: Two Decades of Solidarity and Its Dismantling in India’s Anti-trafficking Apparatus under review
• The Magistrate Loophole: Reading the Supreme Court’s 2026 Prajwala Judgment Against the Evidence under review
• The Material and the Moral: Contradictory Imperatives and the Production of Trafficking Narratives in South India contemporary south asia
• Pathivratha Precarity: Sex Work on the Other Side of Marriage in India opting out: women messing with marriage around the world
• The State of Rescue, White Paper women’s initiatives, tirupati
• The State of Rescue, Research Report women’s initiatives, tirupati
• Moral Security: Anti-trafficking and the Humanitarian State in South India anthropological quarterly
• Humanitarian Trafficking: The Violence of Rescue and the Miscalculation of Rehabilitation economic & political weekly
• The Stickiness of Sex Work: Pleasure, Habit, and Intersubstantiality in South India signs: journal of women in culture and society

Read Kimberly’s articles for openDemocracy here.