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The Perfect Business? - Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong (Hardcover, New)
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The Perfect Business? - Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong (Hardcover, New)
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For those at the high end of the trafficking chain, the sex trade
is an alluring and lucrative business: the supply of girls is
constant, the costs of operations are low, and interference from
law enforcement is weak to non-existent. Anti-trafficking
organisations and governments commonly appropriate such market
metaphors of supply and demand as they struggle with the
moral-political dimensions of a business involving trade, labour,
prostitution, migration, and national borders. But how apt are
they? Is the sex trade really the perfect business? This
provocative new book examines the social worlds and
interrelationships of traffickers, victims, and trafficking
activists along the Thai-Lao border. It explores local efforts to
reconcile international legal concepts, the bureaucratic
prescriptions of aid organisations, and global development
ideologies with on-the-ground realities of sexual commerce. Author
Sverre Molland provides an insider's view of recruitment and sex
commerce gleaned from countless conversations and interviews in
bars and brothels-a view that complicates popular stereotypes of
women forced or duped into prostitution by organised crime.
Molland's fine-grained ethnography shows a much more varied picture
of friends recruiting friends, and families helping relatives. A
recruiter rationalises her act as a benefit or favour to a village
friend; relationships between prostitutes and bar owners are
cloaked in kin terms and familial metaphors. Sex work in the Mekong
region follows patron-client cultural scripts about mutual help and
obligation, which makes distinguishing the victims from the
traffickers difficult. Molland's research illuminates the methods
and motivations of recruiters as well as the economic incentives
and predicaments of victims. The Perfect Business? is the first
book to go beyond the usual focus on migrants and sex commerce to
explore the institutional context of anti-trafficking. Its author,
himself a former advisor for a United Nations anti-trafficking
project, raises crucial questions about how an increasingly
globalised development aid sector responds to what might more
accurately be described as an extraterritorial development
challenge of human mobility. His book will offer insights to
students and scholars in anthropology, gender studies, and human
geography, as well as anyone interested in one of the most
controversial issues of development policy.
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Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2012 |
First published: |
August 2012 |
Authors: |
Sverre Molland
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
264 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-3610-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
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LSN: |
0-8248-3610-3 |
Barcode: |
9780824836108 |
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