Illicit Flirtations (eBook)

Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo

Rhacel Salazar Parrenas (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
336 Seiten
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-7816-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Working alongside migrant Filipina hostesses in Japan, Parreñas investigates the impact of being labeled as trafficked victims and explores what governments should do to improve the lives of global migrants.

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An "e;excellent"e; ethnography that "e;reveal[s] the global implications of the US morality on international policies and migrant workers"e; (Cristina Firpo, International Review of Modern Sociology). In 2004, the US State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent. To some, this might suggest a victory for the global anti-trafficking campaign, but Rhacel Parrenas counters that this drastic decline which stripped thousands of migrants of their livelihoods is a setback. Parrenas worked alongside hostesses in a working-class club in Tokyo's red-light district, serving drinks and entertaining her customers. While the common assumption has been that these hostess bars are hotbeds of sexual trafficking, Parrenas quickly discovered a different world of working migrant women, there by choice, and, most importantly, where none were coerced into prostitution. Illicit Flirtations calls into question the US policy to broadly label these women as sex trafficked. It highlights how in imposing top-down legal constraints to solve the perceived problems including laws that push dependence on migrant brokers and measures that criminalize undocumented migrants many women become more vulnerable to exploitation, not less. This book gives a long overdue look into the real world of those labeled as trafficked. "e;A highly readable and informative book."e; Ko-lin Chin, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"e;A nuanced portrayal. . . . Scholars and policy-makers should take note."e; Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University, author of Purchase of Intimacy and Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy"e;An extraordinary book."e; Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of A Sociology of Globalization

Autor

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work (Stanford University Press, 2001) and Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes (Stanford University Press, 2005).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• ISBN-10: 0-8047-7816-7 / 0804778167
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-7816-9 / 9780804778169