| Women Who Cross Borders - Black Magic? Contributor(s): Jahnsen, Synnøve (Author) |
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ISBN: 3639164563 ISBN-13: 9783639164565 Publisher: VDM Verlag OUR PRICE: $50.27 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6" W x 9" (0.41 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Norway there has, since the end of the 1990's, been reported an increased number of foreign women in prostitution. The increase has led to changes within the local prostitution scene, due to the fact that Norwegian women who support their drug abuse by prostitution has left the market or become less visible. The Norwegian media repeatedly describe the phenomenon by using words such as explosions, invasions and floods of foreign prostitutes. It has especially been the Nigerian group of women who have received massive media attention, as media could report an increase from two Nigerian women in 2003, to approximately four hundred within 2006. Nigerian women were, in the period studied, described as more visible, not only because of their ethnicity, but also because they behaved differently from other groups of women. The public outcry especially escalated when the prostitution scene became an increasingly visible element in Oslo's parade street Karl Johan. Nigerian women were in the public eye presented, in every way possible, as being a "matter out of place", and as doing the wrong things in the wrong places. |