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Elena Shih

Elena Shih
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies and director of Human Trafficking Research Cluster, Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University
Gender

Racialized Redemptive Labor and Sex Work

An excerpt from Elena Shih’s probing book

April 18, 2023 • by Elena Shih
Commercial sex in Bangkok, broadcast through tourist networks, now links the city in many minds with human trafficking—following the global tendency to conflate all sex commerce with sex trafficking. ...

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