26isfam060 10.3205/26isfam060 urn:nbn:de:0183-26isfam0601 Meeting Abstract Silva-Santisteban Silva-Santisteban Alfonso A

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

author Tavara Tavara Micaela M

Asociacion Cultural Trenzar

author Leon-Morris Leon-Morris Francezka F

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

author Luyo Luyo Marianne M

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

author Brisson Brisson Julien J

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

author Perez-Brumer Perez-Brumer  Amaya  

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

author German Medical Science GMS Publishing House

Düsseldorf

610 20260612 engl This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Dieser Artikel ist ein Open-Access-Artikel und steht unter den Lizenzbedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (Namensnennung). M0652 060 International Society for Arts and Medicine The Healing Arts – Forging Alliances of Arts & Medicine Presentation Abstracts Berlin 20260618 20260620 26isfam060 TextBackground: Nearly one million Venezuelans have resettled in Lima over the past decade, making it the world’s largest urban host city. Women comprise half of migrants, and amid economic/labour precarity and gender-based inequalities, some engage in sex work, increasing vulnerability.Objective: To co-conduct creative laboratories with Venezuelan women engaged in sex work that center their lived knowledge and meaning-making around migration, settlement, and labor.Methods: Guided by Creative Relational Inquiry, 10 migrant women sex workers aged 18 and over participated in five six-hour creative laboratories (May–June 2025), co-facilitated with a community artists’ collective. Group discussions and reflection focused on experiences of migration, resettlement, and sex work. Arts-based outputs (e.g. play, dance, writing, and theatre, group dialogue), and reflexive fieldnotes were analyzed using a relational thematic approach.Results: Laboratories culminated in a performance piece that rendered sex work a central, multidimensional site of migration and settlement, naming violence, trauma, and harm while re-framing sex work as labor, dignity, and collective survival. Role-playing and iterative improvisation fostered relationality, emotional relief, joy, and a sense of safety, functioning as practices of collective repair amid ongoing precarity. Sustained social ties and a closed-audience presentation emerged as outcomes, enabling continued connection and collective reflection on the process.Conclusions: This study demonstrates that flexible, arts-based praxis can elicit difficult and often silenced knowledge while supporting relational well-being and symbolic repair among migrant women sex workers living with violence, discrimination, and moral injury, with clear relevance for health research and practice in contexts of crisis and displacement. 0 0 0 0