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- Provides empirical accounts that challenge the popular narratives of those engaged in post-war prostitution.
- Demonstrates the evolution of prostitution in post-war societies and the complex ways in which prostitution and peacekeeping missions intersect.
- Recommends measures to reduce and combat cases of exploitation in post-war countries and during peacekeeping missions.
Part of the book series: Studies of Organized Crime (SOOC, volume 17)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Using ethnographic research conducted in Kosovo from 2011 to 2015, this book offers an alternate understanding of the growth of the sex industry in the wake of war. It features in-depth interviews with the diverse women engaged in prostitution, with those facilitating it, and with police, prosecutors, and gynecologists. Drawing on the perspectives of women engaged in prostitution in the wake of war, this volume argues that the depiction of these women as victims of trafficking in the hegemonic discourse does more harm than good. Instead, it outlines the complex set of circumstances and choices that emerge in the context of a growing post-war sex economy.
Extrapolating the conclusions from the study of Kosovo, this book is a valuable resources forresearchers and practitioners studying the aftermath of war in the Balkans and beyond, and researchers engaged with the function of the UN and peacekeeping missions internationally.
Authors and Affiliations
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Verwey-Jonker Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Roos de Wildt
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Post-War Prostitution
Book Subtitle: Human Trafficking and Peacekeeping in Kosovo
Authors: Roos de Wildt
Series Title: Studies of Organized Crime
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19474-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19473-4Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19476-5Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19474-1Published: 12 August 2019
Series ISSN: 1571-5493
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Trafficking, Organized Crime, Human Rights and Crime