Sex traffic : prostitution, crime, and exploitation / Paola Monzini ; translated by Patrick Camiller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monzini, Paola, 1965-

Series:

Global issues series (Zed Books)

The global issues series

Standardized Title:

Mercato delle donne. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Prostitution.

Women immigrants--Social conditions.

Women immigrants.

Women--Crimes against.

Women.

Exploitation.

Physical Description:

x, 184 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian.

Contents:

1 The global sex market 9

The cultural setting 9

Market trends 24

Migrant prostitutes and the transnational market 33

The international debate on prostitution 52

2 La donna e mobile: female emigration and prostitution 58

The countries of origin 58

Opportunities to work abroad 65

Entry into the commercial sex circuits 71

3 The mechanisms of the trade 84

Dynamics 84

The land routes 97

Intercontinental trafficking 106

A complex system: the routes from Nigeria 115

Other economic activity induced by trafficking 127

4 Prevention and opposition: instruments and policies 137

Ways of controlling prostitution 137

Destination countries and the struggle against trafficking 142

Deportation to countries of origin 148.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-176) and index.

ISBN:

184277624X

1842776258

OCLC:

59098858