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Focus Topic: Borders, Trans-borders, No Borders?: Problematizing the Figure of "the Migrant."

Constrained desire for mobility and the rejection of the victim subject: The negotiation of trafficking discourses in Brazilian sex workers’ narratives

Johanna NeuhauserInstitut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS), Universität Osnabrück, 49069, Osnabrück, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 39-54 | Published online: 26 Mar 2015

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