Bombay Going: Nepali Migrant Sex Workers in an Anti-Trafficking Era, by Susanne Åsman

Susan Åsman conducted her ethnographic research during the first decade of the 21st century (2005–2006) in Sindhupalchowk (a district in the northern central part of Nepal, near the Tibetan border) and to be more precise in Ichigyang, a Tamang area ‘where there had been a continuity of women’s migr...

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Hovedforfatter: Steinmann, Brigitte
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:Anglais
Udgivet: European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 2022
Online adgang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:Susan Åsman conducted her ethnographic research during the first decade of the 21st century (2005–2006) in Sindhupalchowk (a district in the northern central part of Nepal, near the Tibetan border) and to be more precise in Ichigyang, a Tamang area ‘where there had been a continuity of women’s migration and return over generations’, and where women ‘have been creating an acceptance of their migration also for sex work or what is defined as sex trafficking by anti-trafficking organizations’ (...