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Thai migrant sexworkers : from modernisation to globalisation

Author

Aoyama, Kaoru, 1962-

Title

Thai migrant sexworkers : from modernisation to globalisation / Kaoru Aoyama.

Format

Book

Published

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Description

xi, 237 p. ; 23 cm.

URL

<Contributor biographical information> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008037816-b.html <Publisher description> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008037816-d.html <Table of contents only> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008037816-t.html

Variant title

Thai migrant sex workers

Notes

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Essex, 2005, under title: Becoming someone else : Thai migrant sex workers from modernisation to globalisation. Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-232) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: From personal troubles to public issues
• Modernisation, gender and globalisation : situating the migrations of Thai sexworkers
• Before becoming sexworkers
• Becoming sexworkers, being sexworkers
• Becoming ex-sexworkers.

Review

"This study of sexwork and trafficking in the globalized culture and economy offers a critique of increasingly stringent policing worldwide following the UN protocol against trafficking in persons. Using original data gathered through participatory action research in Thailand and Japan, the author presents a holistic description of a controversial global phenomenon which successfully links personal troubles to larger social issues in our time. The book depicts both temporal and geographical moves of migrant sexworkers and demonstrates their personal developments. Providing a new perspective on migrant sexwork and trafficking, it highlights the grey area between the two without losing sight of women's agency."--BOOK JACKET.

Kinsey subjects

Prostitutes--Thailand. Prostitutes sex behavior--Thailand. Prostitution research. Prostitution--Japan. Women--Japan.

ISBN

9780230524668 0230524664