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Author Åsman, Susanne, author

Title Bombay going : Nepali migrant sex workers in an anti-trafficking era / Susanne Åsman
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 221 pages) : illustrations
Contents Intro; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Remembrance (and Forgetting) of Changes in Women's Migration for Sex Work; 2. The House; 3. The Red Light District; 4. Return; Conclusion; References; Index; About the Author
Summary With a focus on women's agency, Susanne Åsman provides an ethnographic account of how Tamang women and men in the Sindhupalchowk district, defined as severely affected by sex trafficking, understand what they describe as Bombay going or migration for sex work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed September 17, 2018)
Subject Women foreign workers -- India -- Mumbai
Foreign workers, Nepalese -- India -- Mumbai
Prostitution -- India -- Mumbai
Human trafficking -- India -- Mumbai
Women -- Nepal -- Sociological aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Human trafficking
Prostitution
Social conditions
Women foreign workers
Women -- Sociological aspects
SUBJECT Nepal -- Social conditions -- 21st century
India -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject India
India -- Mumbai
Nepal
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781498558556
1498558550