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Paola Monzini, Sex Traffic. Prostitution, Crime and Exploitation (New York: Zed 2005)
PAOLA MONZINI's Sex Traffic is a clear, mainstream overview of the "traffic in women." Monzini sets out to explain to a non-specialist audience the phenomenon of the traffic in women, a system of exploitation that can ensnare those seeking a better life in the global labour market, particularly the global sex market. The author provides a broad analysis of trafficking by laying out the framework that she sees as sustaining the traffic: the coming together of "international migration, organized crime, gender issues and the 'global' sex-market." (3) That is, Monzini explains the traffic in women as a product of the male demand for sexual services, the "supply" of young women seeking work in the global labour market, the growth of organized criminal networks who take advantage of those seeking to work abroad, and the gendered nature of all of these processes. In this discussion Monzini treads fairly carefully between the polarized schools of thought over trafficking--the radical feminist contention that trafficking and prostitution... |
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