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Gender, Place & Culture
A Journal of Feminist Geography
Volume 22, 2015 - Issue 5
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‘I'd do it for love or for money’: Vietnamese women in Taiwan and the social construction of female migrant sexuality

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Pages 591-607 | Received 25 Mar 2013, Accepted 12 Nov 2013, Published online: 27 Feb 2014

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