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

• Autore: Crawford Mary (Mary E.)
• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.44095
• Soggetto topico: Human trafficking - South Asia; Prostitution - South Asia; Women - South Asia - Social conditions
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Sex trafficking in South Asia
• ISBN: 1-135-18250-7; 1-135-18251-5; 1-282-57605-4; 9786612576058; 0-203-86281-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781076503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research on gender in Asia series.