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

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 thousan...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Jewish Cultures of the World
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 14
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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