The Migrant and Her Trafficker : Nineteenth-Century European Politics, a Metaphor and the Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ennis, Ruth.

Series:

Dialectics of the Global Series

Dialectics of the Global Series ; v.21

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

By the end of the nineteenth century, terms like "white slavery", "la traite des blanches" and "Mädchenhandel" had become linguistic equivalents to describe the (coerced) transnational migration of women and their subsequent sale of sex.

Contents:

Intro

On the Series

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 Introduction

2 The European (State) Categorising the Other

3 War and Memory under the Global Condition

4 Subverting the Archives

5 The Power of Metaphor and Appropriation (1870-1881)

6 Knowledge of "White Slavery" and a Shifting Legal Dogma (1866-1880)

7 Empire, Migrants, and the Law (1869-1881)

8 Towards A Conclusion

Bibliography

List of Figures

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-11-143210-6

OCLC:

1525267479