{"product_id":"illicit-flirtations-labor-migration-and-sex-trafficking-in-tokyo-paperback-1","title":"Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRhacel Parreñas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParreñas 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 \u003ci\u003eyakuza\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIllicit Flirtations\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRhacel Salazar Parreñas\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eServants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford University Press, 2001) and \u003ci\u003eChildren of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford University Press, 2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52731731935539,"sku":"9780804777124","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Q3ZqVlRrdUZHais0Vnk3UXhqeDdzZz09_167719f8-f9d8-4eb4-a1c2-9d2429e2d290.webp?v=1763866876","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/illicit-flirtations-labor-migration-and-sex-trafficking-in-tokyo-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}