Silence, mobility and ‘national values’: South Korean sex workers in Australia

Ham, J; Jung, K; Jang, H

Silence, mobility and ‘national values’: South Korean sex workers in Australia

Ham, J Jung, K

Jang, H

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Sexualities, 2016, 19 (4), pp. 432 - 448
Issue Date:: 2016-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Ham, J	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Jung, K https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9346-7712	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Jang, H	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Sexualities, 2016, 19 (4), pp. 432 - 448	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1363-4607	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/43555
dc.description.abstract	© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Korean women sex workers have attracted attention from Australian border security, South Korean government officials and Korean-Australian communities. This article considers how the bodies of these women have become the ‘iconic sites’ (Luibhéid, 2002: ix–xxvii) on which the South Korean government and immigrant Korean-Australian communities perform ‘national values’. Within Korean-Australian communities, Korean sex workers have been perceived as threats to the immigrant project of socio-economic mobility and ‘legitimate’ citizenship. We consider the silence that is desired of sex workers within immigrant communities and how this can be co-opted by anti-trafficking discourses that are still predicated on the helpless, voiceless female victim.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Sexualities	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1363460715613289	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Gender Studies	en_US
dc.title	Silence, mobility and ‘national values’: South Korean sex workers in Australia	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	4	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	19	en_US
utslib.for	1699 Other Studies in Human Society	en_US
utslib.for	2002 Cultural Studies	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Social and Political Sciences Program
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pubs.volume	19	en_US

Abstract:

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Korean women sex workers have attracted attention from Australian border security, South Korean government officials and Korean-Australian communities. This article considers how the bodies of these women have become the ‘iconic sites’ (Luibhéid, 2002: ix–xxvii) on which the South Korean government and immigrant Korean-Australian communities perform ‘national values’. Within Korean-Australian communities, Korean sex workers have been perceived as threats to the immigrant project of socio-economic mobility and ‘legitimate’ citizenship. We consider the silence that is desired of sex workers within immigrant communities and how this can be co-opted by anti-trafficking discourses that are still predicated on the helpless, voiceless female victim.

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