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Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 30, S. 345-346
ISSN: 0197-9183
Humanitarian food aid in Africa: Lessons from Sudan
In: Global economic policy: journal of the Geonomics Institute, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 98-108
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Book Review: Homecomings: Unsettling Paths of Return
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 974-976
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
Homecomings: Unsettling Paths of Return
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 974-976
ISSN: 0197-9183
Anthropological Perspectives on the Trafficking of Women for Sexual Exploitation
In: International migration: quarterly review, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 5-31
ISSN: 1468-2435
Abstract The sexual exchange of girls and women embodies deep cultural practices and is historically embedded in many family and kinship systems. Contemporary trafficking operations transform traditional bride wealth and marriage exchanges (prestations) by treating women's sexuality and bodies as commodities to be bought and sold (and exchanged again) in various Western capitals and Internet spaces. Such operations are also global with respect to scale, range, speed, diversity, and flexibility. Propelling many trafficking exchanges are political economic processes, which increase the trafficking of women in times of stress, such as famine, unemployment, economic transition, and so forth. However, the disparity between the global market operations, which organize trafficking, and the late nineteenth century social/public welfare system of counter‐trafficking suggests why the latter do not effectively address women's risks and may even expose them to increased levels of violence and stress. Drawing on historical accounts, anthropological theory, and ethnographic work in Viet Nam and Bosnia and Herzegovina, this essay examines how specific cultural practices embedded in family and kinship relations encourage and rationalize sexual trafficking of girls and young women in times of stress and dislocation. The essay also analyses how technologies of power inform both trafficking and counter‐trafficking operations in terms of controlling women's bodies, sexuality, health, labour, and migration. By analysing sexual trafficking as a cultural phenomenon in its own right, such an analysis seeks to inform and address the specific situations of girls and young women, who suffer greatly from the current migration regimes.
Anthropological Perspectives on the Trafficking of Women for Sexual Exploitation
In: International migration, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 5-31
ISSN: 0020-7985
Book Review: Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 345-346
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 345
ISSN: 0197-9183
Book Review: States and International Migrants: The Incorporation of Indochinese Refugees in the United States and France
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 597-598
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
Book Review: Disposable People? The Plight of Refugees
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 384-384
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
States and International Migrants: The Incorporation of Indochinese Refugees in the United States and France
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 28, S. 597-598
ISSN: 0197-9183
Book reviews - States and International Migrants: The Incorporation of Indochinese Refugees in the United States and France by Jeremy Hein
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 597
ISSN: 0197-9183
Disposable People? The Plight of Refugees
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 28
ISSN: 0197-9183