This paper aims to analyze the mobility and sociability strategies that have been developed by Brazilian transvestite sex workers in Europe. With emphasis on strategies that need to be created due to the lack of documents and vulnerabilities linked to their gender, physical appearance and racialized bodies. It is a cutout of the Master's research on the mobility and displacement strategies of Brazilian transvestites working as sex workers in the European market. The study was based on online and in person fieldwork between 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, with two Brazilian transvestites living in Amsterdam, who use diverse strategies to migrate to and reside in Europe, strategies to access and maintain their mobility and to face challenges of sociality with different cultures that understand their bodies as only dehumanized objects of pleasure. The paper contributes to the anthropological and ethnographic academic production in the field of migration and gender, problematizing the schism that falls upon transvestite bodies from the Global South. It brings contributions to studies and research on migration, immobility, sex market and immigrant transvestites. It provides nuances and information for continuity and for new research, as well as reveals a social character by focusing and highlighting transvestites' dilemmas and discourses. Moreover, the paper contributes by bringing a little explored perspective on the sex market and the migration of transvestites, occasioning the debate on the agency and strategies of these people facing the impositions of the State, market and society that are marked by immobility and social control.
