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Gender, Place & Culture
A Journal of Feminist Geography
Volume 19, 2012 - Issue 1
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‘Shades of grey’: spaces in and beyond trafficking for Thai Women involved in commercial sexual labour in Sydney and Singapore

‘Matices’: espacios en y más allá del tráfico para las mujeres tailandesas que practican el trabajo sexual comercial en Sidney y Singapur

Pages 42-60 | Published online: 19 Oct 2011

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