Panics Without Borders: How Global Sporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking Volume 1

by Gregory Mitchell

Book Overview

We are living in a time of great panic about "sex trafficking"--an idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520381777
• ISBN13: 9780520381773
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"