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Author Yarfitz, Mir, author.

Title Impure migration : Jews and sex work in golden age Argentina / Mir Yarfitz
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Jewish cultures of the world
Jewish cultures of the world.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction: White Slave Wives on the Road to Buenos Aires; 1. White Slaves and Dark Masters; 2. Jewish Traffic in Women; 3. Marriage as Ruse, or Migration Strategy; 4. Immigrant Mutual Aid among Pimps; 5. The Impure Shape Jewish Buenos Aires; Conclusion: After the Varsovia Society; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; About the Author
Summary Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced, without the resources required to immigrate. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one of very few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries, and Jewish men facilitate their transit and the organization of their work and social lives. Instead of marginalizing this story or reading it as a degrading chapter in Latin American Jewish history, Impure Migration interrogates a complicated social landscape to reveal that sex work is in fact a critical part of the histories of migration, labor, race, and sexuality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 25, 2019)
Subject Jews -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 19th century
Jews -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 20th century
Prostitution -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History
Human trafficking -- History
Jews -- Migrations -- History
Jews, European -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History
Social reformers -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History
Jewish women -- Argentina
HISTORY -- General.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Human trafficking
Jewish women
Jews
Jews, European
Jews -- Migrations
Prostitution
Social conditions
Social reformers
SUBJECT Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History
Europe, Eastern -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History
Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Social conditions
Subject Argentina
Argentina -- Buenos Aires
Eastern Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0813598184
9780813598185
9780813598154
081359815X