Selling sex overseas
Subtitle: Chinese women and the realities of prostitution and global sex trafficking
By: Ko-lin Chin and James O. Finckenauer
Contributors: Finckenauer, James O.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780814772577; 9780814772584; 9780814769683; 9780814763810
Subjects: Human trafficking; Transnational crime; Prostitution
Description: Every year, thousands of Chinese women travel to Asia and the United States in order to engage in commercial sex work. In Selling Sex Overseas, Ko-lin Chin and James Finckenauer challenge the current sex trafficking paradigm that considers all sex workers as victims, or sexual slaves, and as unwilling participants in the world of commercial sex. Bringing to life an on-the-ground portrait of this usually hidden world, Chin and Finckenauer provide a detailed look at all of its participants: sex workers, pimps, agents, mommies, escort agency owners, brothel owners, and drivers. Ultimately, they probe the social, economic, and political organization of prostitution and sex trafficking, contradicting many of the 'moral crusaders' of the human trafficking world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is sex trafficking?; title: Going down to the sea; title: The women; title: The destinations; title: The sex markets; title: The traffickers; title: Supply and demand: follow the money; title: Response and rescue: how the system works; title: The realities and the myths: a critical analysis of sex trafficking; title: The politics of prostitution and sex trafficking.