"Christine B. N. Chin is Associate Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University. She is the author of In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian ""Modernity"" Project and Cruising in the Global Economy: Profits, Pleasure and Work at Sea."
Yale H. Ferguson Award co-winner Cosmopolitan Sex Workers offers a rare glimpse into the illicit world and shadow economy of transnational sex work. It adds a new twist to our perspective of the villain pimp, illuminating why they cannot always be reduced to a trafficker and illustrating with complexity how they can also be welcome brokers for agentic sellers of sex. This book is an important addition to the literature on intimate labor, women's migration, and gender and globalization. --Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, University of Southern California, author of Illicit Flirtations: Women, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo