Magaly Rodríguez García (Ecuador, 1973) is a Lecturer at the History Department of the KU Leuven - University of Leuven. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2008 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Between September 2009 and September 2015 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Her research focuses on the League of Nations and its views and campaign against human traffic, prostitution and slavery. Since 2010, she is visiting fellow of the International Institute of Social History. She obtained a mandate from the Francqui Foundation to work as an Intercommunity Postdoctoral Collaborator at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2013. Since 2014 she is also member of the European COST Action 'Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance'. Phone: +32(0)2 629 12 76 Address: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical ... more Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers a time period from 1600 to the 2000s. The overviews in this volume examine sex work in more than twenty notorious “sin cities” around the world, ranging from Sydney to Singapore and from Casablanca to Chicago. Situated within a comparative framework of local developments, the book takes up themes such as labour relations, coercion, agency, gender, and living and working conditions. Selling Sex in the City thus reveals how prostitution and societal reactions to the trade have been influenced by colonization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of nation states, imperialism, and war, as well as by revolutions in politics, transport, and communication.
Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical ... more Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers a time period from 1600 to the 2000s. The overviews in this volume examine sex work in more than twenty notorious “sin cities” around the world, ranging from Sydney to Singapore and from Casablanca to Chicago. Situated within a comparative framework of local developments, the book takes up themes such as labour relations, coercion, agency, gender, and living and working conditions. Selling Sex in the City thus reveals how prostitution and societal reactions to the trade have been influenced by colonization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of nation states, imperialism, and war, as well as by revolutions in politics, transport, and communication.
Contemporary campaigns against modern slavery, forced labour and trafficking are mobilising consi... more Contemporary campaigns against modern slavery, forced labour and trafficking are mobilising considerable amounts of human and financial resources without paying much attention to the legal underpinnings of the terms used. Moreover, concepts have become conflated in official reports, policy papers and scientific research, a situation that is leading to a broadening of the meaning of legal terms, to the creation of new terms and, more worryingly, to definitional confusion. This conceptual essay provides an overview of the definition of these matters in international law. Coerced labour is used as an umbrella term for all those forms of work that have been defined as " unfree " in law, and is treated here as synonymous with unfree labour. The paper unfolds in five thematically-arranged parts. In the first section I briefly discuss the issue of freedom and coercion in labour relationships. In the second part, the ubiquitously-used but seldom defined term " exploitation " is examined. Parts three and four examine the earliest types of coerced labour to appear in international law: slavery and forced labour. The legal meaning along with the uses and abuses of the term " human trafficking " form part five. To conclude, I reflect on the opportunities and risks involved in the broad interpretation and application of legal definitions of coerced labour.
Contemporary campaigns against modern slavery, forced labour and trafficking are mobilising consi... more Contemporary campaigns against modern slavery, forced labour and trafficking are mobilising considerable amounts of human and financial resources without paying much attention to the legal underpinnings of the terms used. Moreover, concepts have become conflated in official reports, policy papers and scientific research, a situation that is leading to a broadening of the meaning of legal terms, to the creation of new terms and, more worryingly, to definitional confusion. This conceptual essay provides an overview of the definition of these matters in international law.
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