Impure Migration
Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina
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2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9815-4 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9815-4 (ISBN)
Investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was legal in Argentina. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries.
Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced, without the resources required to immigrate. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one of very few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries, and Jewish men facilitate their transit and the organization of their work and social lives. Instead of marginalizing this story or reading it as a degrading chapter in Latin American Jewish history, Impure Migration interrogates a complicated social landscape to reveal that sex work is in fact a critical part of the histories of migration, labor, race, and sexuality.
Impure Migration investigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was a legal institution in Argentina and the international community knew its capital city Buenos Aires as the center of the sex industry. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced, without the resources required to immigrate. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one of very few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries, and Jewish men facilitate their transit and the organization of their work and social lives. Instead of marginalizing this story or reading it as a degrading chapter in Latin American Jewish history, Impure Migration interrogates a complicated social landscape to reveal that sex work is in fact a critical part of the histories of migration, labor, race, and sexuality.
MIR YARFITZ is an assistant professor in the department of history at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Contents
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction: White Slave Wives on the Road to Buenos Aires
1 White Slaves and Dark Masters
2 Jewish Traffic in Women
3 Marriage as Ruse, or Migration Strategy
4 Immigrant Mutual Aid among Pimps
5 The Impure Shape Jewish Buenos Aires
Conclusion: After the Varsovia Society
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.07.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 14 |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8135-9815-X / 081359815X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-9815-4 / 9780813598154 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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