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Cosmopolitan sex workers : women and migration in a global city / Christine B.N. Chin.
LIBRA HQ241.A5 C45 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chin, Christine B. N., 1963-
- Series:
- Oxford studies in gender and international relations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitutes--Southeast Asia.
- Prostitutes.
- Immigrants--Southeast Asia.
- Immigrants.
- Cosmopolitanism--Southeast Asia.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Southeast Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 234 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- 1 Kaleidoscope of City, Creativity, and Cosmopolitanism 3
- 2 Making of a "World-Class City": The State and Transnational Migrant Labor 32
- 3 Reestablishing Internal Borders of the Nation: Creatively Repressive State Strategies 60
- 4 "What Is Wrong with Being a 'Miss'?": Transnational Migrant Women and Sex Work in the Twenty-First Century 84
- 5 "We Sell Services; We Do Not Sell People": Case Study of "Syndicate X" in KL 120
- 6 Knowing and Living in KL's Contact Zones: Gendered, Racialized, and Classed Cosmopolites 146
- 7 Conclusion 173.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199890910
- 0199890919
- OCLC:
- 821560516
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