1st Edition
'My Name Is Not Natasha' How Albanian Women in France Use Trafficking to Overcome Social Exclusion (1998-2001)
By John Davies
Copyright 2009
320 Pages
by
Routledge
This book challenges every common presumption that exists about the trafficking of women for the sex trade. It is a detailed account of an entire population of trafficked Albanian women whose varied experiences, including selling sex on the streets of France, clearly demonstrate how much the present discourse about trafficked women is misplaced and inadequate. The heterogeneity of the women... Read more
Acknowledgements, Summary, Tables and figures, Acronyms and abbreviations, 1. What is trafficking? 2. Research design and methods, 3. Understanding trafficking, 4. Leaving Albania,5. Arriving in France, 6. Living and working in Lyon, 7. Overcoming or accommodating trafficking, 8. Conclusions: explaining trafficking, Notes, Appendix A Questionnaire and guidelines, Appendix B Cost of sex acts in Lyon, Appendix C The lamp-post sticker used by the campaign, Appendix D Advertisements for off-street sex workers, Appendix E Number of transsexual and female prostitutes in Lyon, Appendix F Ethical statement, Appendix G The researcher’s map of Lyon, Appendix H Social matrix of the trafficking order in Lyon, References
Biography
John Davies is a Research Fellow at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, at the University of Sussex.
