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Re: [Pen-l] supply & demand at work

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Correction to what I just wrote:
>> Wrestling with this concept is the specialty of the excellent Laura
>> Agustin. Very short version: the word is used only with sex workers who
>> migrate. Other kinds of workers are migrants (if they're working class), or
>> almost no word at all (if they're bond traders).

> I see on Agustin's blog that the word "trafficking" is now being used more
> broadly, as a pejorative to describe people who cross borders without the
> approval of the state and our moral police.

I've always thought of "human trafficking" as involving kidnapping.
It's not the same thing as prostitution.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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