Bombay Going - Nepali Migrant Sex Workers in an Anti-Trafficking Era

With a focus on women's agency, Susanne Åsman provides an ethnographic account of how Tamang women and men in the Sindhupalchowk district, defined as severely affected by sex trafficking, understand what they describe as Bombay going or migration for sex work.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Remembrance (and Forgetting) of Changes in Women's Migration for Sex Work
Chapter 2: The House
Chapter 3: The Red Light District: Brothel and Home
Chapter 4: Return

About the author

By Susanne Åsman

Product details

• Authors: Susanne Asman, Susanne Åsman, Asman Susanne
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781498558549
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5854-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social issues & processes, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Gender studies: women and girls, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality