Abstract (eng)
The following thesis handles a phenomenon which has, in the last ten years, grown in social and political relevance: The transnational sextourism in the austrian country Carinthia. Since Italy is an abolitionistic country, where prostitution is forbidden by law, while Austria is a regulative/sex-work country, where sexual offerings are legalized and regulated, which is why a lot of big german, austrian and italian entrepreneurs decided to invest millions in founding giant brothels in cities near the boarder, like Villach, Oberdrauburg or Hohenthurn in Gailtal, to attract specifically italian customers. The target of this thesis consists in showinbg, in which forms this shows, how it was possible to develop like this, the effects it has, and to analyse the political, economic and social implications of this topic. In order to do this, I've held three expert-interviews in the austrian provincial capital of Klagenfurt. Furthermore, I've searched media articles on this topic and statements made by locally and politically relevant people. The results have shown that the main reason for this phenomenon to exist lies within the diverging political strategies that Austria and Italy take to tackle this topic. Another main reason, that furthered it, is the already existing cultur-economical exchange between Italy and Carinthia. The raise in numbers among giant brothels has led to a bigger number of foreign prostitutes as well, edpecially from newer EU-countries like Romania and Bulgaria. Furthermore, more crimes of pimping and sexual exploitation have been reported as well. In order to handle the problem of fastly rising figures in foreign prostitutes, the carinthian police department named "Menschenhandel und Rotlicht" got expanded. More than that, the cooperation of police-departments all over Europe started working together even more than they already did. The women-department of "Land Kärnten" developed a folder specifically for victims, where they tell - not only, but mostly - young women of their rights and duties, when they are sex-workers. Nevertheless, the growing red-light-district within Carinthia remains a problem. In this context, the prohibition of giant brothels and the raise of the legal-age up to 21 years where considered to fight human traffic and sexual exploitation in Carinthia.