Sex and Emotion-Based Relations as a Resource in Migration: Northern Chinese Women in Paris
Faced with scarce employment opportunities in Paris, a number of the women who migrate from northern China to earn money and counter the effects of a status fall in their native country start looking for alternative solutions. Some turn to prostitution, while others try to find a Chinese intimate pa...
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cairn-RFS_525_0003RFS1Revue française de sociologie https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-2011-5-page-3?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/rfs.525.0003 Sex and Emotion-Based Relations as a Resource in Migration: Northern Chinese Women in Paris Lévy, FlorenceLieber, Marylène2012 fre Revue française de sociologie | 52 | 5 | 2012-01-10 | p. 3-29 | 0035-2969 RFS_52568 Faced with scarce employment opportunities in Paris, a number of the women who migrate from northern China to earn money and counter the effects of a status fall in their native country start looking for alternative solutions. Some turn to prostitution, while others try to find a Chinese intimate partner or a French husband. The article discusses the strategies open to these women for accomplishing the goals they set for themselves in migrating. It examines a heterogeneous set of sexual-economic exchanges that reveal the porosity of the boundary between prostitution and other intimate relationships and suggest that marriage and prostitution may be seen as the endpoints of a continuum, two different ways of making a sexual-economic “arrangement.” In the precarious socio-economic situation these women migrants find themselves in once in Paris, sex and emotion-based relations become a genuine resource.Cairn free access |
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Faced with scarce employment opportunities in Paris, a number of the women who migrate from northern China to earn money and counter the effects of a status fall in their native country start looking for alternative solutions. Some turn to prostitution, while others try to find a Chinese intimate partner or a French husband. The article discusses the strategies open to these women for accomplishing the goals they set for themselves in migrating. It examines a heterogeneous set of sexual-economic exchanges that reveal the porosity of the boundary between prostitution and other intimate relationships and suggest that marriage and prostitution may be seen as the endpoints of a continuum, two different ways of making a sexual-economic “arrangement.” In the precarious socio-economic situation these women migrants find themselves in once in Paris, sex and emotion-based relations become a genuine resource. |
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