 | Trafficking Women in Korea: Filipina migrant entertainers Subjects: Area Studies; Global Development; Humanities; Social Sciences; Gender Studies; Gender & Development; Gender Studies - Soc Sci; Asian Studies; History; Sociology & Social Policy; Korean Studies; Women''s Studies; Asian History; Women''s & Gender History; Gender Studies; Based on in-depth ethnographic work, this book presents a study of Filipinas trafficked to South Korea, focusing on women who entered South Korea as migrant entertainers and subsequently became deployed in exploitative work environments around US military bases there. It contributes to the extension of our knowledge about human trafficking in the Asian region through an exploration of the experiences of more than 100 women who took part in the study. The book challenges many of the accepted understandings about "trafficking victims" and unravels the implications of these narrow understandings for the women themselves. It explores the ways women negotiate trafficking largely outside of the emerging formal anti-trafficking framework, and explains how new community formations and social networks emerge crafted by the women themselves to manage and overcome their vulnerabilities in migration. Sallie Yea is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Science Education at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. |
