We do really need more male sex worker and migrant perspectives on TAS, yes, and we’ll be actively looking for contributors who identify with both or either group. As for when the drug war and the war on sex workers collide, here’s a great piece by my old friend Melissa Gira Grant about that sort of structural violence in the prison industrial complex, which, full disclosure, I was quoted in:
http://www.vice.com/read/why-did-this-woman-who-was-arrested-in-a-prostitution-sting-die-in-a-florida-jail-508

We have been sounding the alarm about this since the inception of “trafficking courts” (née “prostitution courts”) in NYC. I see judges, district attorneys, and social service providers getting a lot of press around their altruistic efforts, as well as funding for their trafficking programs and probably promotions, too. Meanwhile, sex workers in the courts get nothing but an ACD on their prostitution arrest.

Let me be clear: sex workers get relief from the arrest and conviction on prostitution charges––something law enforcement and the courts created in the first place. The courts provide a remedy to themselves. 1-1=0.

Yet, look at everyone who is actually profiting off of the courts, i.e. advancing their political agenda, getting press for their non profits, being honored at bar association dinners. Must be nice.

Boom. Great line. This was super powerful. I have done research on the War on Drugs, but I do have a weak understanding of the War on Human Trafficking. The parallels you draw are very nuanced and important work. The narratives of these “wars” rely heavily on posturing the victims as tragic victims that need to be saved, but they don’t actually care about the humans that they push into never ending cycles of poverty. Amazing.