Christine B N Chin

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers

Women and Migration in a Global City

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Produktbeschreibung

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers examines the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who choose to migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780190249267
• ISBN-10: 0190249269
• Artikelnr.: 47863609

Autorenporträt

Christine B. N. Chin is Associate Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University. She is the author of In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "Modernity" Project and Cruising in the Global Economy: Profits, Pleasure and Work at Sea.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Tables
* List of Figures
* Acknowledgments
* Abbreviations
* Chapter 1. Kaleidoscope of City, Creativity and Cosmopolitanism
* Chapter 2. Making of a 'World Class City': The State and
Transnational Migrant Labor
* Chapter 3. Re-establishing Internal Borders of the Nation: Creatively
Repressive State Strategies
* Chapter 4. "What is wrong with being a 'Miss'?": Transnational
Migrant Women and Sex Work in the 21st Century
* Chapter 5. "We Sell Services, We Do Not Sell People": Case Study of
'Syndicate X' in KL
* Chapter 6. Knowing and Living in KL's Contact Zones: Gendered and
Racialized Cosmopolites
* Chapter 7. Conclusion
* Notes
* References
* Index