‘Reproachable Victims’? Representations and Self-representations of Russian Women Involved in Transnational Prostitution
- 23 June 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Ethnos
- Vol. 75 (2), 190-212
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00141841003764013
Abstract
The article investigates how the concept of victimhood is constructed within debates on transnational prostitution and trafficking, and how representations of victimhood intersect with representations of the person/self, class, ethnicity, gender and nationality. Using research findings based on observation and interviews with women from post-Soviet societies involved in prostitution in Norway, we discuss how the women embrace, resist or rework dominant representations of migrant prostitution and attendant notions of victimhood, as well as how they relate to multiple notions of the person/self, femininity and nation through their handling of the stigma of prostitutionKeywords
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