Impure migration : Jews and sex work in golden age Argentina / Mir Yarfitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yarfitz, Mir, Author.

Series:

Jewish cultures of the world.

Jewish Cultures of the World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History--20th century.

Prostitution--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History.

Prostitution.

Human trafficking--History.

Human trafficking.

Jews--Migrations--History.

Jews, European--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History.

Jews, European.

Social reformers--Argentina--Buenos Aires--History.

Social reformers.

Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--History.

Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Europe, Eastern--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--History.

Europe, Eastern.

Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x , 207 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced, without the resources required to immigrate. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one of very few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries, and Jewish men facilitate their transit and the organization of their work and social lives. Instead of marginalizing this story or reading it as a degrading chapter in Latin American Jewish history, Impure Migration interrogates a complicated social landscape to reveal that sex work is in fact a critical part of the histories of migration, labor, race, and sexuality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction: White Slave Wives on the Road to Buenos Aires

1. White Slaves and Dark Masters

2. Jewish Traffic in Women

3. Marriage as Ruse, or Migration Strategy

4. Immigrant Mutual Aid among Pimps

5. The Impure Shape Jewish Buenos Aires

Conclusion: After the Varsovia Society

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-8135-9818-4

OCLC:

1120696899