Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-8kt4b Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-28T17:17:05.007Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

5 - Rejecting Honest Work

Pimps, Apaches, and Other Undesirable Men

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2024

Elisa Camiscioli
Affiliation:
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Get access

Summary

This chapter shifts to undesirable men and disreputable expressions of masculinity, depicting the world of pimps and traffickers from the perspective of the migration paradigm. With examples that span the United States, Uruguay, Argentina, Cuba, and Mexico, I show how anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution discourse, in addition to articulating gendered ideas about sexual respectability and normative migration patterns, employed equally moralistic concepts to distinguish honest labor from illegitimate work. Some traffickers sought upward social mobility by engaging with both the licit and illicit economies of their destination countries, while for others, pimping and trafficking was the logical extension of a longer criminal history, shirking work discipline, and refusing the responsibilities of family and nation. French men were central to a broader story of migrant criminality in the Americas, namely through their participation in the sex trade.

Type
Chapter
Information
Selling French Sex
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations
, pp. 157 - 197
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • Rejecting Honest Work
  • Elisa Camiscioli, Binghamton University, State University of New York
  • Book: Selling French Sex
  • Online publication: 04 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009418386.006
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • Rejecting Honest Work
  • Elisa Camiscioli, Binghamton University, State University of New York
  • Book: Selling French Sex
  • Online publication: 04 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009418386.006
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • Rejecting Honest Work
  • Elisa Camiscioli, Binghamton University, State University of New York
  • Book: Selling French Sex
  • Online publication: 04 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009418386.006
Available formats
×