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The Hell of Good Intentions: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Opium in the Political Ecology of the Trade in Girls and Women

Document number
2183
Date
1997
Title
The Hell of Good Intentions: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Opium in the Political Ecology of the Trade in Girls and Women
Author/publisher
David A. Feingold, Ophidian Research Institute
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Trafficking process, Recruitment, Transportation, Transit, Transfer, Consent, Palermo protocol; Definition of (trafficking), Root Causes, Risk Groups, Vulnerability, Pull factors, Push factors, Sending/Receiving countries,
Summary
This paper is a preliminary attempt to share some thoughts on two topics, which have compelled attention -- public or private -- in most human societies: Sex and drugs.  Or more precisely, the relationship between sex and drugs;  not as conjectured (or remembered) by the worried parents of teenage daughters, but as commodities in international trade.  In the specif­ic case of mainland S.E. Asia and China, what is the relationship through time of opiate production to the production of sexual services?
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