Sex trafficking in South Asia : telling Maya's story / Mary Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Mary (Mary E.), author.

Series:

Routledge research on gender in Asia series.

Routledge research on gender in Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human trafficking--South Asia.

Human trafficking.

Prostitution--South Asia.

Prostitution.

Women--South Asia--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary locally grounded analysis. Focusing on the case of Nepal, from where 5,000 to 7,000 thousands of Nepali girls and women are trafficked each year primarily to India, Mary Crawford assesses how the social construction of trafficking - the concept and its representation in discourse - are influenc

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Sex Trafficking: The Global and the Local; 2 Shangri-La Revisited; 3 Nine to Five; 4 Nepali Perspectives on Sex Trafficking: The view from within; 5 Telling Maya's Story: Shaping the discourse of sex trafficking; 6 Interventions; 7 Strategies for Change; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-18250-7

1-135-18251-5

1-282-57605-4

9786612576058

0-203-86281-3

9780203862810

OCLC:

610210496