Doug Henwood wrote: > Correction to what I just wrote: >> Wrestling with this concept is the specialty of the excellent Laura >> Agustin. Very short version: the word is used only with sex workers who >> migrate. Other kinds of workers are migrants (if they're working class), or >> almost no word at all (if they're bond traders).
> I see on Agustin's blog that the word "trafficking" is now being used more > broadly, as a pejorative to describe people who cross borders without the > approval of the state and our moral police. I've always thought of "human trafficking" as involving kidnapping. It's not the same thing as prostitution. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
