The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong / / Sverre Molland; ed. by Rita Smith Kipp, David P. Chandler.
For those at the high end of the trafficking chain, the sex trade is an alluring and lucrative business: the supply of girls is constant, the costs of operations are low, and interference from law enforcement is weak to non-existent. Anti-trafficking organizations and governments commonly appropriat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction The Perfect Business?
- part I: GLOBAL PERFECTIONS The Idealized Discourse of Trafficking
- 2. Do Traffickers Have Navels?
- 3. The Market Metaphor
- part II: LOCAL IMPERFECTIONS: On-the-Ground Realities and Ambiguities
- 4. Teens Trading Teens
- 5. Hot Spots and Flows
- 6. Profitable Bodies?
- part III: BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: The Anti-traffickers
- 7. Combating Trafficking, Mekong Style: Tales of Fishponds and Mushrooms
- 8. The Drifters: Anti-traffickers in Practice
- Conclusion: The Tenacity of the Market Metaphor
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- OTHER VOLUMES IN THE SERIES