Perpetual motion: Displacement of travestis from an ethnographic perspective

Abstract Intense mobility is a characteristic observed in the context of travestis who work sex markets. Studies on subject usually emphasize that this related to project refinement, social ascension, and greater social, symbolic, economic well-being, besides serving as transformation beautification bodies. Based ethnographic work, I argue that, order understand various orders displacements travestis, it necessary such movements perpetual motion machine, not being determined by imperatives would necessarily lead from one place another search something - much less exceptional. In context, are way world. Events occur during displacements, because them.