Illicit flirtations

by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

2011 325 pages eng

"In 2004, the U.S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percent -- from more than 80,000 in 2004 to just over 8,000 today.…