{{Short description|Guyanese author and sexology professor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Kamala Kempadoo | birth_place = England | alma_mater = [[Ohio State University]] (Master's)<br />[[University of Amsterdam]] (BA and Doctorandus)<br />[[University of Colorado-Boulder]] (PhD) | employer = [[York University]] | known_for = Writing and teaching about sexual labour and anti-trafficking. | father = [[Peter Kempadoo]] | relatives = [[Oonya Kempadoo]] and [[Roshini Kempadoo]] (sisters) }} '''Kamala Kempadoo''' is a British-Guyanese<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-02 |title=Connecting our arrival |url=https://newsday.co.tt/2021/06/02/connecting-our-arrival/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday |language=en-US}}</ref> author and sociology professor who lives in [[Barbados]] and [[Canada]]. She has written multiple books about sex work and human trafficking and won awards from the ''Caribbean Studies Association'' and the [[Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality]] for her distinguished and lifetime achievements.
== Early life and education == Kempadoo was born in England to [[Guyana|Guyanese]] parents Rosemary Read Kempadoo (teacher and part-time writer) and [[Peter Kempadoo]] (development worker and writer).<ref name=":0" /> She is the second oldest of nine siblings.<ref name=":0" /> Her seven sisters include [[Oonya Kempadoo]] and [[Roshini Kempadoo]]; she has one younger brother.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2022-03-25 |title=Celebrated Guyanese writer Peter Kempadoo passes away - Stabroek News |url=https://www.stabroeknews.com/2019/08/29/news/guyana/celebrated-guyanese-writer-peter-kempadoo-passes-away/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220325190150/https://www.stabroeknews.com/2019/08/29/news/guyana/celebrated-guyanese-writer-peter-kempadoo-passes-away/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2022-03-25 |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=archive.ph}}</ref>
Kempadoo has a BA and a doctorandus degree in [[social science]]s from the [[University of Amsterdam]], a master’s degree in [[Black studies|Black Studies]] from [[Ohio State University]], and a Ph.D in [[sociology]] from the [[University of Colorado Boulder|University of Colorado-Boulder]].<ref name=":0" />
== Career == Kempadoo has worked in research since the early 1990s with an initial focus on sexual labour in the Caribbean, before shifting to focus on sex work in general and anti-trafficking in low income countries.<ref name=":0" />
She joined [[York University]] in 2002, where she worked as professor to advance the understanding and promote the study of sex work, Caribbean studies and Black radical thought.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2019-07-06 |title=York University professor recognized for work in sexology — Ron Fanfair |url=https://www.ronfanfair.com/home/2018/1/10/york-university-professor-recognized-for-work-in-sexology |access-date=2022-04-01 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706081943/https://www.ronfanfair.com/home/2018/1/10/york-university-professor-recognized-for-work-in-sexology |archive-date=6 July 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> At York University, she has held academic appointments in social science, political science; gender, feminist and women’s studies; social and political thought; and development studies.<ref name=":0" />
Kempadoo has had academic affiliations with the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the [[University of the West Indies at Cave Hill]] in Barbados and the Institute for Gender and Development Studies.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2021-04-20 |title=About the Contributors |url=https://sfonline.barnard.edu/caribbean-feminisms/about-the-contributors/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420100301/https://sfonline.barnard.edu/caribbean-feminisms/about-the-contributors/ |archive-date=20 April 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2018, she was awarded the [[Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality|Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality's]] ''Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award'' for her contributions to the field of sexuality studies.<ref name=":0" /> She was also awarded the ''Lifetime Achievement Award'' from the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) in the same year.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Caribbean Studies Association » Dr Kamala Kempadoo, the 2018 recipient of the CSA Lifetime Achievement Award |url=https://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/dr-kamala-kempadoo-the-2018-recipient-of-the-csa-lifetime-achievement-award/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> The CSA said that Kempadoo is "one of the most important scholars and influential thinkers on the global sex trade, sex work, human trafficking, and sexual-economic relations."<ref name=":5" />
== Views == Kempadoo is proponent for the [[Decriminalization of sex work|decriminalisation of sex work]]<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-04-07 |title=Call to make sex trade safer |url=https://www.nationnews.com/2016/04/07/call-to-make-sex-trade-safer/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.nationnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> and has spoken about how [[shadism]] affects the earning potential of sex workers in [[Curaçao|Curacao]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 March 2016 |title=Not Only On The Streets |work=Barbados Advocate |url=https://www.barbadosadvocate.com/news/not-only-streets}}</ref>
== Personal life == Kempadoo has previously lived in the UK, Netherlands, United States, and throughout the Caribbean.<ref name=":3" /> Since 2002, she has been based in Canada and since 2005 lives part of the year in Barbados.<ref name=":2" />
== Selected publications ==
* ''[https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/white-mans-burden-revisited/ The white man’s burden revisited],'' [[OpenDemocracy]], 2015<ref>{{Cite web |title=Beyond 'raid and rescue': time to acknowledge the damage being done |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/beyond-raid-and-rescue-time-to-acknowledge-damage-being-done/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=openDemocracy |language=en}}</ref>
=== Books === * ''Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered,'' [[Paradigm Publishers|Paradigm]], 2005/2012<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2020-08-07 |title=Kamala Kempadoo |url=https://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/december2013/KamalaKempadoo.asp |access-date=2022-04-01 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807160724/https://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/december2013/KamalaKempadoo.asp |archive-date=7 August 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Whisnant |first=Rebecca |date=2007 |title=Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/218019 |journal=Hypatia |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=209–215 |issn=1527-2001}}</ref> * ''Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labour'', New York, [[Routledge]], 2004<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2021-04-23 |title=kempadoo {{!}} Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies |url=https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/kempadoo/#squelch-taas-tab-content-1-1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423073135/https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/kempadoo/#squelch-taas-tab-content-1-1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2021-04-23 |access-date=2022-04-01 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schauer |first=Edward J. |date=June 2007 |title=Book Review: Kempadoo, K. (2004). Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race, and Sexual Labor. New York: Routledge, Pp. ix, 272 |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1057567707302512 |journal=International Criminal Justice Review |language=en |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=138–139 |doi=10.1177/1057567707302512 |s2cid=143839652 |issn=1057-5677|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * ''Sun, Sex and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean,'' Boulder, Colorado, [[Rowman & Littlefield|Rowman and Littlefield]],1999<ref name=":4" /> * Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema ''Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition,'' New York, [[Routledge]], 1998<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Topeka Capital-Journal |url=https://www.cjonline.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cjonline.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2F2021%2F10%2F10%2Ftopeka-high-alumna-professor-sex-worker-rights-advocate-brazil-davida-watson-fellowship%2F6033108001%2F |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.cjonline.com}}</ref> * Kamala Kempadoo, Jyoti Sanghera, and Bandana Pattanaik ''Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights''. Boulder, Colorado, [[Paradigm Publishers]], 2005 & 2012<ref name=":4" /><ref>Allman D. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03058298060340021707 Book Review: Gender and Human Rights Gargi Bhattacharyya, Traffick: The Illicit Movement of People and Things (London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2005, 220 pp., £13.99, pbk.) Kamal Kempadoo with Jyoti Sanghera and Bandana Pattanaik (eds.), Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work and Human Rights (Boulder & London: Paradigm Publishers, 2005, 247 pp., £68, hbk.; $21.85, pbk.).] ''Millennium''. 2006;34(2):599-602. [[doi:10.1177/03058298060340021707]]</ref>
=== Papers ===
* Kamala Kempadoo, Halimah DeShong, and Charmaine Crawford, ''Caribbean Feminist Research Methods for Gender and Sexuality Studies,'' Special issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 7 (Dec 2013) <nowiki>http://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/</nowiki><ref name=":4" /> * Kamala Kempadoo and Darya Davydova, ''From Bleeding Hearts to Critical Thinking: Exploring the Issue of Human Trafficking''. Toronto Centre for Feminist Research, [[York University]], 2012. <nowiki>http://cfr.info.yorku.ca/fbh/</nowiki><ref name=":4" />
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