Mir Yarfitz

Impure Migration

Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina

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Produktbeschreibung

Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina. Yarfitz examines how thousands of Eastern European Jewish women and men migrated to Latin America and engaged in organized sex work to escape from the difficult conditions in their home countries. 

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780813598154
• ISBN-10: 081359815X
• Artikelnr.: 55404360

Autorenporträt

MIR YARFITZ is an assistant professor in the department of history at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction: White Slave Wives on the Road to Buenos Aires
1          White Slaves and Dark Masters                     
2          Jewish Traffic in Women                   
3          Marriage as Ruse, or Migration Strategy       
4          Immigrant Mutual Aid among Pimps              
5          The Impure Shape Jewish Buenos Aires        
Conclusion: After the Varsovia Society
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index