{"product_id":"on-the-move-for-love-9780812222777","title":"On the Move for Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the Korean War, \u003ci\u003egijichon\u003c\/i\u003e—U.S. military camp towns—have been fixtures in South Korea. The most popular entertainment venues in \u003ci\u003egijichon\u003c\/i\u003e are clubs, attracting military clientele with duty-free alcohol, music, shows, and women entertainers. In the 1990s, South Korea''s rapid economic advancement, combined with the stigma and low pay attached to this work, led to a shortage of Korean women willing to serve American soldiers. Club owners brought in cheap labor, predominantly from the Philippines and ex-Soviet states, to fill the vacancies left by Korean women. The increasing presence of foreign workers has precipitated new conversations about modernity, nationalism, ethnicity, and human rights in South Korea. International NGOs, feminists, and media reports have identified women migrant entertainers as victims of sex trafficking, insisting that their plight is one of forced prostitution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre women who travel to work in such clubs victims of trafficki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the best, most nuanced books I have read on militarized prostitution and sex trafficking. . . . Sealing Cheng successfully contrasts the thought-provoking individual stories of Filipino entertainers in South Korea (and their motives, resistance, and experiences) with the structural, rhetorical, and sometimes well-meaning impediments to migration, security, and a better life.\" * Meredith Ralston, \u003ci\u003eHuman Rights Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOn the Move for Love\u003c\/i\u003e vividly captures the intimate dialogues, rigorously challenges the established conceptual frameworks, and powerfully demonstrates the complexity of the lives of women who continuously hope for a better future. . . . A welcome addition to the field.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Cheng has struck the perfect balance between depicting the exploitation, pain, frustration, and sorrow experienced by the women in \u003ci\u003egijichon\u003c\/i\u003e and the experiences that illustrate women's choices, hopes, strategies, good humor, and overall humanity.\" * Nicole Constable, University of Pittsburgh *\u003cbr\u003e\"A head-spinning, richly detailed, and fiercely original account of migrant Filipina entertainers in Korea. Sealing Cheng's rich ethnography captures migrant subjects who are also desiring subjects; romance as a mode of agency; and \"projects of aspiration\" as well as 'projects of need.' Deft and nuanced, embracing contradiction, and brave in honoring Filipinas' \"dreams of flight\", this book is absorbing, moving, and a great read. Destined to become a classic in gender\/sexuality studies, migration, ethnography, and global South courses.\" * Carole S. Vance, Columbia University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Angel Club\u003cbr\u003e PART I. SETTING THE STAGE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Sexing the Globe\u003cbr\u003e PART II. LABORERS OF LOVE\u003cbr\u003e Vignette I. A Gijichon Tour in 2000\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. \"Foreign\" and \"Fallen\" in South Korea\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Women Who Hope\u003cbr\u003e PART III. TRANSNATIONAL WOMEN FROM BELOW\u003cbr\u003e Vignette II. A Day in Gijichon, December 1999\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Club Regime and Club-Girl Power\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Love \"between My Heart and My Head\"\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. HOME IS WHERE ONE IS NOT\u003cbr\u003e Vignette III. Disparate Paths: The Migrant Woman and the NGO\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. At Home in Exile\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. \"Giving Value to the Voices\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Hop, Leap, and Swerve—or Hope in Motion\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405701521751,"sku":"9780812222777","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812222777.jpg?v=1730493329","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-the-move-for-love-9780812222777","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}