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A Modern form of slavery : trafficking of Burmese women and girls into brothels in Thailand

Title
  1. A Modern form of slavery : trafficking of Burmese women and girls into brothels in Thailand / Asia Watch and the Women's Rights Project.
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  1. New York : Human Rights Watch, ©1993.

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Additional authors
  1. Thomas, Dorothy Q.
  2. Jones, Sidney, 1952-
  3. Asia Watch Committee (U.S.)
  4. Women's Rights Project (Human Rights Watch)
Description
  1. 160 pages : map; 23 cm
Summary
  1. Thousands of Burmese women and girls are trafficked into Thai brothels every year where they work under conditions tantamount to slavery. Subject to debt bondage, illegal confinement, various forms of sexual and physical abuse, and exposure to HIV in the brothels, they then face wrongful arrest as illegal immigrants if they try to escape or if the brothels are raided by Thai police. Once arrested, the women and girls may be subjected to further sexual abuse in Thai-Burmese border where they are often lured back into prostitution by brothel agents who play on their fear of arrest on return to Burma. Thai police and border patrol officials are involved in both the trafficking and the brothel operations, but they routinely escape punishment as, for the most part, do brothel agents, owners, pimps and clients.
Alternative title
  1. Trafficking of Burmese women and girls into brothels in Thailand.
Subject
  1. Women, Burmese > Crimes against > Thailand
  2. Prostitutes > Crimes against > Thailand
  3. Slavery > Thailand
  4. Prostitution > Thailand
  5. Girls > Crimes against > Burma
  6. Brothels > Thailand
  7. 71.31 sexes and their interrelations
  8. Prostitution
  9. Girls > Crimes against
  10. Brothels
  11. Prostitutes > Crimes against
  12. Slavery
  13. Social conditions
  14. Frauenhandel
  15. Sextourismus
  16. Vrouwenhandel
  17. Prostitutie
  18. Thailand > Social conditions
  19. Burma > Social conditions
  20. Burma
  21. Thailand
  22. Birma
  23. Birma
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. "Asia Watch and the Women's Rights Project."
  2. Written by: Dorothy Q. Thomas ... [et al.].
  3. Includes relevant legislation.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.