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100 1 $aCheng, Sealing.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009055068
245 10 $aOn the move for love :$bmigrant entertainers and the U.S. military in South Korea /$cSealing Cheng.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$c2010.
263 $a1002
300 $a291 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aPennsylvania studies in human rights
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tThe angel club --$g1.$tSexing the globe --$g2.$t"Foreign" and "fallen" in South Korea --$g3.$tWomen who hope --$g4.$tThe club regime and club-girl power --$g5.$tLove "between my heart and my head" --$g6.$tAt home in exile --$g7.$t"Giving value to the voices" --$g8.$tHop, leap, and swerve - or hope in motion.
520 1 $a"Since the Korean War, gijichon - U.S. military camp towns - have been fixtures in South Korea. The most popular entertainment venues in gijichon are clubs, attracting military clientele with duty-free alcohol, music, shows, and women entertainers. In the 1990s, South Korea's rapid economic advancement, combined with the stigma and low pay attached to this work, led to a shortage of Korean women willing to serve American soldiers. Club owners brought in cheap labor, predominantly from the Philippines and ex-Soviet states, to fill the vacancies left by Korean women. The increasing presence of foreign workers has precipitated new conversations about modernity, nationalism, ethnicity, and human rights in South Korea. International NGOs, feminists, and media reports have identified women migrant entertainers as "victims of sex trafficking," insisting that their plight is one of forced prostitution." "Are women who travel to work in such clubs victims of trafficking, sex slaves, or simply migrant women? How do these women understand their own experiences? Is anti-trafficking activism helpful in protecting them? In On the Move for Love, Sealing Cheng attempts to answer these questions by following the lives of migrant Filipina entertainers working in various gijichon clubs. Focusing on their aspirations for love and a better future, Cheng's ethnography illuminates the complex relationships these women form with their employers, customer-boyfriends, and families. She offers an insightful critique of anti-trafficking discourses, pointing to the inadequacy of recognizing women only as victims and ignoring their agency and aspirations, Cheng analyzes the women's experience in South Korea in relation to their subsequent journeys to other countries, providing a diachronic look at the way migrant issues of work, sex, and love fit within the larger context of transnationalism, identity, and global hierarchies of inequality."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aProstitution$zKorea (South)
650 0 $aWomen$zPhilippines.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96006702
650 0 $aWomen foreign workers$zKorea (South)
650 0 $aMilitary bases, American$xSocial aspects$zKorea (South)
650 0 $aForeign workers, Filipino$zKorea (South)
830 0 $aPennsylvania studies in human rights.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90627600
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