Impure Migration : : Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina / / Mir Yarfitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• VerfasserIn: Yarfitz, Mir,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Cultures of the World
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 14

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.

Table of 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