Thai Migrant Sexworkers: From Modernization to Globalization

Aoyama, Kaoru
Thai Migrant Sexworkers: From Modernization to Globalization
Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, ISBN:978-0-230-52466-8, 237pp
This study of sex work and trafficking in the globalised culture and economy offers a critique of increasingly stringent policing worldwide following the UN Protocol Against Trafficking in Persons. Using original data gathered through participatory action-research in Thailand and Japan the author presents a holistic description of a global phenomenon that successfully links personal troubles to larger social issues. The book depicts both temporal and geographical moves of migrant sex workers and demonstrates their personal development.