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Impure Migration : Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina / Mir Yarfitz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish Cultures of the WorldPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) : 14Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813598154
  • 9780813598185
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 982/.11004924 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 -- About the Author
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- About the Author

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)