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

An "excellent" ethnography that "reveal[s] the global implications of the US morality on international policies and migrant workers" (Cristina Firpo, International Review of Modern Sociology).

In 2004, the US 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. To some, this might suggest a victory for the global anti-traf...