The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade Along the Mekong

by Sverre Molland

Book Overview

For those at the high end of the trafficking chain, the sex trade is an alluring and lucrative business: the supply of girls is constant, the costs of operations are low, and interference from law enforcement is weak to non-existent. Anti-trafficking organizations and governments commonly appropriate such market metaphors of supply and demand as they struggle with the moral-political dimensions of a business involving trade, labor, prostitution,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824836537
• ISBN13: 9780824836535
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"