Cosmopolitan Sex Workers Women and Migration in a Global City
Cosmopolitan Sex Workers Women and Migration in a Global City
- ISBN 13:
9780199890910
- ISBN 10:
0199890919
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/30/2013
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
But while global cities create economic opportunities for migrants (and depend on the labor they provide), states react with new forms of securitization and surveillance. As a result, migrants must negotiate between appropriating and subverting the ideas that inform global economic restructuring. Chin argues that migration allows women to develop intercultural skills that help them to make these negotiations.
Cosmopolitan Sex Workers is innovative not only in its focus on non-trafficked women, but in its analysis of the complex relationship between global economic processes and migration for sex work. Through fascinating interviews with sex workers in Kuala Lumpur, Chin shows that sex work can provide women with the means of earning income for families, for education, and even for their own businesses. It also allows women the means to travel the world - a form of cosmopolitanism "from below."