Reddit reviews Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
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In addition to the obvious strategy of continuing to be a good client, here's some more things clients can do to help, with varying degrees of commitment involved:
Oh yeah, it's libertarian bullshit for sure. This is her book: https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Margins-Migration-Markets-Industry/dp/1842778609/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481336883&sr=8-1&keywords=laura+agustin
EDIT: jesus fuck I am screaming about this Amazon review of it:
> The whole notion of "migrants" is deeply class biased; no one ever called an Indian bond trader working in New York a migrant. But he or she has travelled for the same reasons as dishwashers, nannies, and strippers - to make money, for sure, but also to see the world, or escape suffocating origins.
...what do you even say to something like this? What did I just read? Obviously there are class differences between bond traders and strippers and it would be INSANE to ignore the differences. The fuck are these people smoking?
EDIT2 (SORRY I JUST CAN'T GET OVER THESE REVIEWS): Another reviewer goes on to compare her to Emma Goldman and calls the book a classic! I'm just gonna leave this here (Goldman was decidedly anti-state interference in prostitution buuuttt she still wants it eradicated/calls it a social evil, etc): https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1910/traffic-women.htm
Sex trafficking is a moral panic. It's not real. Read this book and stop watching those documentaries; they're the modern equivalent of Reefer Madness.
While agencies are exploitative, it's not in the sense you're thinking of, just in the Marxist way of extracting surplus value from the labor of their workers, like any other company.
In that case, you might want to check out this book -- Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry . "Sex trafficking" is not as black and white as you've been lead to believe.
If you've read that, I recommend you read the other side of the story. Kristof has a specific agenda, and it is greatly at odds with the goals of those living and working in the sex industry. He is not seen as a savour, he is seen as an enemy.
There is no real evidence that the methods he promotes actually achieve positive results. If anything, it appears that they do more harm than good.
Google "rescue industry" for more details.