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Author Dalla

Title Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking : Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Introduction; Part One: Africa; 1. Perspectives of Women Sex Workers about Street-Level Prostitution in Botswana; 2. Adolescents' Prostitution and the Educational Prospects of the Girl-Child in Nigeria; 3. Tourism and Prostitution in West Africa: A Glimpse of the ""Roamers"" in Ghana; 4. Child Sexual Exploitation in Kenya; Part Two: Asia; 5. Prostitution in India: A Global Problem; 6. Galtung's Unified Theory of Violence and its Implications for Human Trafficking: A Case Study of Sex Workers in West Bengal India
7. Desiring Motherhood, Selling Sex: Women in Kolkata's Commercial Sex Trade8. Urbanization, Gender, Rights, and HIV/AIDS Risk: The Case of Female Commercial Sex Workers in China; 9. Well and Truly Fucked: Transwomen, Stigma, Sex Work, and Sexual Health in South to East Asia; 10. Prostitution in Indonesia; Part Three: Middle East; 11. Jewish Sources and Trafficking in Women; 12. Unveiling Prostitution and Human Trafficking in Israel; 13. Immigration, Women, and Prostitution: The Case of Women from the Former Soviet Union in Israel
14. Prostitution in Morocco: Implications for Research DirectionsPart Four: Oceania; 15. Oscillations in the Regulation of the Sex Industry in New South Wales, Australia: Disorderly or Pragmatic?; 16. Reworking Sex: Prostitution in the Pacific and the Position for Law Reform; Index; About the Authors; About the Editors
Summary Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex trafficking may be forced into pornography, prostitution for the military or militia, spousal prostitution, and prostitution for the sex-tourism industry. In response to the problem of sex trafficking, many nations have either misunderstood the definition or failed to comprehend the magnitude that have occurs within their
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Subject Prostitution -- Asia
Prostitution -- Africa
Prostitution -- Middle East
Prostitution -- Oceania
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Prostitution.
Africa.
Asia.
Middle East.
Oceania.
Form Electronic book
Author Defrain
Baker
ISBN 9780739132777
0739132776