Trafficked Victims or Labor Migrants? The Indentured Mobility of Filipina Hostess Workers in Japan – Kimberly Kay Hoang reviews Rhacel Parrenas’ new book: Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo
Congratulations to Rhacel Parrenas for this glowing review of her latest book, Illicit Flirtations?: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo! To read the review, click here.
Read MoreKristof and the Rescue Industry: The Soft Side of Imperialism, Laura Agustin
Laura Agustin, Kristof and the Rescue Industry: The Soft Side of Imperialism (January 25, 2012) This article originally appeared in counterpunch. To view the original, click here. The Soft Side of Imperialism Reasons abound to be turned off by the New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. He is too pleased with himself and demonstrates no capacity for self-reflection. He is too earnest. He claims to be in the vanguard of journalism because he tweets. He is said to be Doing Something...
Read MoreCritical Directions in Comparative Family Law: Genealogies and Contemporary Studies of Family Law Exceptionalism by Janet Halley and Kerry Rittich
This is an Introduction to a Special Issue of the American Journal of Comparative Law, edited by Janet Halley. The central theme of the Special Issue is “family law exceptionalism”: the myriad ways in which the family and its law are deemed, either descriptively or normatively, to be special. We argue that the nineteenth century emergence of Family Law as a distinct legal topic, influenced inter alia by Friedrich Carl von Savigny and carried around the world as part of the influence...
Read MoreReview of Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, Laura Agustin
Laura Agustin, Review of Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (February 2012) This read the original review on H-Net, click here. A Man of Moral Sentiments Siddharth Kara’s Sex Trafficking is not a scholarly book. Neither based on methodological research nor reflecting knowledge of literature that could give context to the author’s experience, this reads like the diary of a poverty tourist or the bildungsroman of an unsophisticated man of moral sentiments...
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