Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo 1st Edition by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Bilingual

Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo 1st Edition by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Bilingual"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 percentfrom more than 80,000 in 2004 to just over 8,000 today. To some, this might suggest a victory for the global anti trafficking campaign, but Rhacel Parreas counters that this drastic declinewhich stripped thousands

This unique collection of images reveals an important

Illustrated by Aldopho Soliz

Here over 60 women writers evidence the rectitude of the Catholic Spanish past

By Judy Patacsil

Hilaria Del Rosario-Aguinaldo

"Serves as a reference material for the author who wants to write on Philippine history

Presents documents that evince the origins and developments of the dispute between regular clergy and secular clergy which gradually took on racial

portrayed in cartoons

His works include Stage Presence: Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists (2007)

Pilandok is a popular character in Southern Philippine folktales

Pulling Weeds by Eric Edward Chock

the character of the colonial structure and facets of residential life specifically its interior spaces during the turn of the century in Vigan