Migration for sex-work, whether by choice or by force, defined by many as sex-trafficking, has become a cause-célèbre in the world of those interested in women's rights and the effects of globalization on women and children in less economically developed countries. The marginalization of women who entertain the US military in Korea is not a new subject, as the excellent work by Katherine H.S. Moon Sex among Allies: Military Prostitution in US – Korea Relations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), has so powerfully brought this into the public discourse.According to Kathryn Robinson, until recently transnational migration in the global economy was predominantly male. She attributes a feminization of migration to a growing demand for domestic workers and in increase in the international sex worker trade (“Marriage, Migration, Family Values and the ‘Global Ecumene’”). Paper presented at the migration and the ‘Asian Family’ in a Globalizing World Conference, April 16-18,...

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