Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo

by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

Book Overview

In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent--from more than 80,000 in 2004 to just over 8,000 today. To some, this might suggest a victory for the global anti-trafficking campaign, but Rhacel Parre as counters that this drastic decline--which stripped...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804777128
• ISBN13: 9780804777124
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"