9780804777117-080477711X-Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo

Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo

ISBN-13: 9780804777117
ISBN-10: 080477711X
Edition: 1
Author: Rhacel Parreñas
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Hardcover 336 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780804777117
ISBN-10: 080477711X
Edition: 1
Author: Rhacel Parreñas
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Format: Hardcover 336 pages

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Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (ISBN-13: 9780804777117 and ISBN-10: 080477711X), written by authors Rhacel Parreñas, was published by Stanford University Press in 2011. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent―from more than 80,000 in 2004 to just over 8,000 today. To some, this might suggest a victory for the global anti-trafficking campaign, but Rhacel Parreñas counters that this drastic decline―which stripped thousands of migrants of their livelihoods―is in truth a setback.

Parreñas worked alongside hostesses in a working-class club in Tokyo's red-light district, serving drinks, singing karaoke, and entertaining her customers, including members of the yakuza, the Japanese crime syndicate. While the common assumption has been that these hostess bars are hotbeds of sexual trafficking, Parreñas quickly discovered a different world of working migrant women, there by choice, and, most importantly, where none were coerced into prostitution. But this is not to say that the hostesses were not vulnerable in other ways.

Illicit Flirtations challenges our understandings of human trafficking and calls into question the U.S. policy to broadly label these women as sex trafficked. It highlights how in imposing top-down legal constraints to solve the perceived problems―including laws that push dependence on migrant brokers, guest worker policies that bind migrants to an employer, marriage laws that limit the integration of migrants, and measures that criminalize undocumented migrants―many women become more vulnerable to exploitation, not less. It is not the jobs themselves, but the regulation that makes migrants susceptible to trafficking. If we are to end the exploitation of people, we first need to understand the actual experiences of migrants, not rest on global policy statements. This book gives a long overdue look into the real world of those labeled as trafficked.

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