April 10, 2026
Paper on youth and care wins two prestigious paper awards
Anuneeta Chatterjee, a second-year PhD student. Her paper, 鈥淩eframing adolescent children of sex workers as care receivers and caregivers using a southern feminist lens of deep care,鈥 has been awarded the Visionary Care Studies Paper Award by the . The awards committee recognized the significance of her research questions, the rigour of her work, and its contributions to carework understandings and innovation.
This paper also won an Honourable Mention of the Family, Aging, and Youth Division鈥檚 Student Paper Competition at the Society for the .
The study used a Southern marginal feminist perspective of deep care to critically appraise the discourse around children of sex workers as non-agentic subjects of the State and NGO care, especially due to the deficit mothering of sex workers. Located in a city in India, the study uses in-depth interviews and participatory learning sessions to explore how children of sex workers growing up in red light areas translate their mother鈥檚 care work and reciprocate care to their mothers. It asks two questions: how do sex workers who are mothers engage in deep care, and how do adolescent children of sex workers embody caregiving for their families?
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