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Zusatztext Cosmopolitan Sex Workers offers a rare glimpse into the illicit world and shadow economy of transnational sex work. It adds a new twist to our perspective of the villain pimp, illuminating why they cannot always be reduced to a trafficker and illustrating with complexity how they can also be welcome brokers for agentic sellers of sex. This book is an important addition to the literature on intimate labor, women's migration, and gender and globalization. Informationen zum Autor Christine B. N. Chin is Associate Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University. She is the author of In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "Modernity" Project and Cruising in the Global Economy: Profits, Pleasure and Work at Sea. Klappentext Cosmopolitan Sex Workers examines the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who choose to migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia. Zusammenfassung Cosmopolitan Sex Workers examines the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who choose to migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1. Kaleidoscope of City, Creativity and Cosmopolitanism Chapter 2. Making of a 'World Class City': The State and Transnational Migrant Labor Chapter 3. Re-establishing Internal Borders of the Nation: Creatively Repressive State Strategies Chapter 4. "What is wrong with being a 'Miss'?": Transnational Migrant Women and Sex Work in the 21st Century Chapter 5. "We Sell Services, We Do Not Sell People": Case Study of 'Syndicate X' in KL Chapter 6. Knowing and Living in KL's Contact Zones: Gendered and Racialized Cosmopolites Chapter 7. Conclusion Notes References Index
