Providing a new perspective on migration and sex work in Europe, this book is based on interviews with migrant women in the sex sector.Β It brings together issues of migration, labour and political subjectivity in order to refocus scholarly and policy agenda away from sex slavery and organized crime,
Migration, Agency and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking
β Scribed by Rutvica Andrijasevic (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 182
- Series
- Migration, Minorities and Citizenship
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Migration and Sex Work in Europe....Pages 1-25
The Cross-Border Migration....Pages 26-56
The Sex Trade....Pages 57-93
Multiple Scripts: Mothers, Whores and Victims....Pages 94-123
Conflicts of Mobility: Migration, Labour and European Citizenship....Pages 124-144
Back Matter....Pages 145-168
β¦ Subjects
Political Sociology; Gender Studies; Political Science; Ethnicity Studies; Migration; Ethics
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