Cosmopolitan sex workers : women and migration in a global city

Cosmopolitan sex workers : women and migration in a global city / Christine B.N. Chin.

"This text examines the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who choose to migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labour in Southeast Asia. Christine B.N. Chin offers an innovative theoretical framework termed '3C' (city, creativity, and cosmopolitanism) to analy...

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Main Author: Chin, Christine B. N., 1963- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Series:Oxford studies in gender and international relations.
Subjects:
Prostitutes > Southeast Asia.
Immigrants > Southeast Asia.
Cosmopolitanism > Southeast Asia.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
Cosmopolitanism
Immigrants
Prostitutes
Migration
Prostitution
Southeast Asia
Kuala Lumpur
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Table of Contents:
  • Kaleidoscope of City, Creativity and Cosmopolitanism
  • Making of a 'World Class City': The State and Transnational Migrant Labor
  • Re-establishing Internal Borders of the Nation: Creatively Repressive State Strategies
  • "What is wrong with being a 'Miss'?": Transnational Migrant Women and Sex Work in the 21st Century
  • "We Sell Services, We Do Not Sell People": Case Study of 'Syndicate X' in KL
  • Knowing and Living in KL's Contact Zones: Gendered and Racialized Cosmopolites.

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