基本説明
Combines personal testimonies from both prostitutes and clients with empirical data and analysis.
Full Description
Patterns of prostitution, like so much else in our increasingly inter-connected world, are changing radically, as the investigations in this volume dramatically show. The question of migrant prostitutes in the West may be much debated, but it is little researched. This collection makes a radical break with the current media focus on human trafficking and the old habit of simply blaming the victim. What emerges is a nuanced and empirically grounded portrait of the complexities of prostitution across national boundaries today.
As befits a subject with such huge consequences for the lives of people, this volume includes personal testimony alongside sociological investigation. Testimony comes from both prostitutes and clients. Men are dealt with as customers; as creators of dominant European notions of sexuality, race and prostitution; and as prostitutes themselves selling services to women tourists.
The experiences of women who migrate to the West and work there as prostitutes are sensitively described. It becomes clear that their lives and aspirations are much more complicated than is usually assumed, and that easy generalizations about trafficking and forced labour do not always hold up.
Of particular interest are the volume's explorations of innovative new policies being pioneered in the Netherlands and Sweden as well as the impact of rising anti-immigrant feeling.
The authors include both scholars and activists. It is their hope that this book will raise the level of debate and contribute to a more humane approach.
Contents
Introduction - Prostitution in a Global Context: Changing Patterns - Susanne Thorbek
PART 1: MEN IN PROSTITUTION
1. Travellers' Tails: Sex Diaries of Tourists Returning from Thailand - Ryan Bishop and Lillian S. Robinson
2. The European Inheritance: Male Perspectives - Susanne Thorbek
3. The Beach Boy of Barbados: Post-Colonial Entrepreneurs - Joan L. Phillips
PART 2: MIGRANT WOMEN IN PROSTITUTION
4. A Social Response to Transnational Prostitution in Queensland, Australia - Linda Meaker
5. The Transnational Prostitution of Thai Women to Germany: A Variety of Transnational Labour Migration? - Pataya Ruenkaew
6. Four Cases from Hamburg - Prapairat Rataloan Mix
7. Bodies across Borders: Prostitution-related Migration from Thailand to Denmark - Anders Lisborg
8. Black Prostitutes in Denmark - Marlene Spanger
PART 3: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS
9. A Portrait of the Lady: The Portrayal of Thailand and its Prostitutes in the International Media - Chitraporn Vanaspong
10. 'Il ya 50,000 prostitu‚es marocaines de luxe dans la cote espagnole': A Necessary Myth - Ana Lopez Lindstrom
PART 4: NEW POLICIES ON PROSTITUTION
11. Migrant Sex Workers in Canada - Noulmook Sutdhibhasilp
12. Business like any other? Managing the Sex Industry in the Netherlands - Marieke van Doorninck
13. Sweden's Law on Prostitution: Feminism, Drugs and the Foreign Threat - Author Gould
PART 5: CONCLUSION
14. Conclusion: Where Do We Go From Here? - Bandana Pattanaik
