Impure migration : Jews and sex work in golden age Argentina / Mir Yarfitz.

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Yarfitz, Mir [author.]

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TextSeries: Jewish cultures of the worldPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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0813598184
9780813598185
9780813598154
081359815X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Impure Migration : Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina.DDC classification:

982/.11004924 23

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F3001.9.J5 Y37 2019

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; 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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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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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