Mimi Sheller, "Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2020)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Sex Work in the Dominican Republic
Roxanne Jones: I saw young women hanging out at corner shops and waiting for rides. Since it was mainly men who had motor cycles or other vehicles, it seemed clear to me that there were sexual power in equalities which made young men and women highly susceptible to sexual exploitation. This was linked in part to their reliance on men for mobility, whether getting a ride into town, getting a ride across the border,. Getting to places like sosua that offered economic opportunio available at homeThrough having sex with foreigners and ultimately dreaming of getting off the island. Trafficking literally begins in traffic.
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