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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811977103321

Autore

Crawford Mary (Mary E.)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-135-18250-7

1-135-18251-5

1-282-57605-4

9786612576058

0-203-86281-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Routledge research on gender in Asia series

Disciplina

363.44095

Soggetti

Human trafficking - South Asia

Prostitution - South Asia

Women - South Asia - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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