Objective:

To present the thoughful discourse about social justice that Iris Marion Young provides, specifically the five faces of oppression, and how they are evident in the lives of trans-women who practice sex work in Colombia.

Methodology:

Based on the documentary review carried out for the construction of the conceptual referents requirements of an in progress Master’s thesis about spatial injustice and resistance in the transgender women sex workers in de city of Manizales.

Results:

Exploitation, marginalization, violence, cultural imperialism, and lack of power are present in the daily life of this population.

Conclusions:

It is necessary to propose the concept of confinement as a sixth face of oppression to analyze the situations of social injustice faced by transgender women and the category of spatial justice is key to understand the territorial dimension of this type of phenomenon.

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