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Mobile orientations : an intimate autoethnography of migration, sex work, and humanitarian borders / Nicola Mai.
LIBRA HQ119.4.E85 M35 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mai, Nicola, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Male prostitutes--Europe.
- Male prostitutes.
- Sex workers--Europe.
- Sex workers.
- Foreign workers--Europe.
- Foreign workers.
- Human trafficking.
- Sexual orientation.
- Male prostitution.
- Europe.
- Male prostitution--Europe.
- Sexual orientation--Europe.
- Europe--Emigration and immigration.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Prostitution--Europe.
- Prostitution.
- Human trafficking--Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 223 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Despite continued public and legislative concern about sex trafficking across international borders, the actual lives of the individuals involved--and, more importantly, the decisions that led them to sex work--are too often overlooked. With Mobile Orientations, Nicola Mai shows that, far from being victims of a system beyond their control, many contemporary sex workers choose their profession as a means to forge a path toward fulfillment.0 Using a bold blend of personal narrative and autoethnography, Mai provides intimate portrayals of sex workers from sites including the Balkans, the Maghreb, and West Africa who decided to sell sex as the means to achieve a better life. Mai explores the contrast between how migrants understand themselves and their work and how humanitarian and governmental agencies conceal their stories, often unwittingly, by addressing them all as helpless victims. The culmination of two decades of research, Mobile Orientations sheds new light on the desires and ambitions of migrant sex workers across the world.
- Contents:
- Intimate autoethnography
- Engaging Albanian (and Romanian) masculinities
- Selling comidas rapidas in Seville
- Boditarian inscriptions
- Burning for (mother) Europe
- The trafficking of migration
- Love, exploitation, and trafficking
- Interviewing agents
- Ethnofictional counter-representations
- Conclusion: challenging sexual humanitarianism
- Appendix: research projects and filmography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226584959
- 022658495X
- 9780226585000
- 022658500X
- OCLC:
- 1027725599
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