This book examines the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who choose to migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia. Christine B.N. Chin offers an innovative theoretical framework termed "3C" (city, creativity, and cosmopolitanism) to analyze how factors at the local, state, and individual levels work together to shape women's ability and desire to migrate to perform sex work.

• List of Tables


• List of Figures


• Acknowledgments


• Abbreviations


• Chapter 1. Kaleidoscope of City, Creativity and Cosmopolitanism


• Chapter 2. Making of a 'World Class City': The State and Transnational Migrant Labor


• Chapter 3. Re-establishing Internal Borders of the Nation: Creatively Repressive State Strategies


• Chapter 4. "What is wrong with being a 'Miss'?": Transnational Migrant Women and Sex Work in the 21st Century


• Chapter 5. "We Sell Services, We Do Not Sell People": Case Study of 'Syndicate X' in KL


• Chapter 6. Knowing and Living in KL's Contact Zones: Gendered and Racialized Cosmopolites


• Chapter 7. Conclusion


• Notes


• References


• Index

Christine B.N. Chin is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University.