Decency and Democracy: The Politics of Prostitution in Ponce, Puerto Rico, 1890-1900

Findlay, Eileen J.

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“…Prostitutes were subject to invasive health surveillance, quarantine, and incarceration to prevent them from transmitting disease to their clients and to nonprostitute women (clients' wives). Efforts were made to isolate prostitution to red light zones or to registered, state-controlled brothels removed from normal community life (Findlay, 1997;Kempadoo, 1999). Thus, the category of prostitute was consolidated as a separate, bounded group of women who were socially necessary if dangerous and polluting.…”

Section: Controlling Prostitutes White Slavery and The 1949 Conventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traffic Violations

Saunders¹

2005

J Interpers Violence

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This contribution will consider the current linkages among migration, sex work, trafficking in persons, and violence. Efforts to end trafficking in persons are perhaps the most important contribution to antiviolence program design in the global arena over the past decade. Significant funding and technical assistance are flowing to organizations to prevent and alleviate the effects of trafficking, and new legislative regimes have been established within countries and globally (e.g., the 2002 UN Crimes Commission's Protocolon Trafficking in Persons). To explore how trafficking and international sex trade issues converge, the author draws on participant observation in international debates such as Beijing Plus Five and the Crimes Commission from 2000 to 2001, on interviews with key figures in the antitrafficking world and with sex-worker rights advocates, and on program documentation.

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Section: Controlling Prostitutes White Slavery and The 1949 Conventionmentioning

confidence: 99%