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Regulating the Global Brothel.
American Prospect, The, July, 2001 by PLATT, LEAH
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As feminization of migration continues, prostitution becomes the prototypical global industry. How do we "protect" its workers?
ON THE NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 10, 1997, TORONTO police officers raided more than a dozen apartments suspected of being houses of ill repute. Twenty-two women, including the alleged madam, Wai Hing "Kitty" Chu, were charged on a total of 750 prostitution and immigration-related charges. All of the women were Asian and spoke no more than a few words of English.
The press accounts of the raid were by turns titillating and full of ...
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