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Globalization and Prostitution

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Forced labor; Migration for sex work; Sex work

Nineteenth-Century Globalized Prostitution

Both the nineteenth- and twentieth-century iterations of global capitalist consolidation brought widespread cross border sexual trading of women and girls and to a lesser extent boys. The nineteenth-century trade took four historically recognizable forms: (1) the transport of women into and within prostitution markets in colonial jurisdictions, such as European women shipped to South American colonies (Guy 1991) and Nigerian women taken to the Gold Coast (Aderinto 2015); (2) the shipping of women abroad for the purpose of venture capital raising, as in the case of Japanese women transported to Southeast Asia (Shimizu 1997); and (3) the trading of women by entrepreneurs taking advantage of commercial and military hubs established by their countrymen abroad, such as Chinese women taken to the USA (Hirata 1979) and Japanese women transported to occupied Manchuria (Howell 2004). Fourthly,...

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Norma, C. (2017). Globalization and Prostitution. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1301-1

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