My Name Is Not Natasha: How Albanian Women In France Use Trafficking To Overcome Social Exclusion (1998-2001) (imiscoe Dissertations)
by John Davies /
2009 / English / PDF
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This book challenges every common presumption that exists about the
trafficking of women for the sex trade. It is a detailed account of
an entire population of trafficked Albanian women whose varied
experiences, including selling sex on the streets of France,
clearly demonstrate how much the present discourse about trafficked
women is misplaced and inadequate. The heterogeneity of the women
involved and their relationships with various men is clearly
presented as is the way women actively created a panoptical
surveillance of themselves as a means of self-policing. There is no
artificial divide between women who were deceived and abused and
those who -choose sex work; in fact the book clearly shows how
peripheral involvement in sex work was to the real agenda of the
women involved. Most of the women described in this book were not
making economic decisions to escape desperate poverty nor were they
the uneducated na ve entrapped into sexual slavery. The women's
success in transiting trafficking to achieve their own goals
without the assistance of any outside agency is a testimony to
their resilience and resolve.
This book challenges every common presumption that exists about the
trafficking of women for the sex trade. It is a detailed account of
an entire population of trafficked Albanian women whose varied
experiences, including selling sex on the streets of France,
clearly demonstrate how much the present discourse about trafficked
women is misplaced and inadequate. The heterogeneity of the women
involved and their relationships with various men is clearly
presented as is the way women actively created a panoptical
surveillance of themselves as a means of self-policing. There is no
artificial divide between women who were deceived and abused and
those who -choose sex work; in fact the book clearly shows how
peripheral involvement in sex work was to the real agenda of the
women involved. Most of the women described in this book were not
making economic decisions to escape desperate poverty nor were they
the uneducated na ve entrapped into sexual slavery. The women's
success in transiting trafficking to achieve their own goals
without the assistance of any outside agency is a testimony to
their resilience and resolve.
