{"product_id":"cosmopolitan-sex-workers-women-and-migration-in-a-global-city-9780190249267","title":"Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City","description":"\u003cem\u003eCosmopolitan Sex Workers\u003c\/em\u003e is a groundbreaking look into the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia. Through a new, innovative framework, Christine B.N. Chin shows that as neoliberal economic restructuring\u003cbr\u003eprocesses create pathways connecting major cities throughout the world, competition and collaboration between cities creates new avenues for the movement of people, services and goods. Loosely organized networks of migrant labor grow in tandem with professional-managerial classes, and sex workers\u003cbr\u003emigrate to different parts of cities, depending on the location of the clientele to which they cater. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003eChin argues that migration allows women to develop intercultural skills that help them to make these negotiations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eCosmopolitan Sex Workers\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003ewomen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine B. N. Chin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190249267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristine B. N. Chin\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eIn Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian \"Modernity\" Project and Cruising in the Global Economy: Profits, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePleasure and Work at Sea.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40262033670259,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":32.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4b403e87-dcb9-48f5-8460-abfaba7de0dd.jpg?v=1657634291","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/cosmopolitan-sex-workers-women-and-migration-in-a-global-city-9780190249267","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}