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Author: Adriana Piscitelli
ISBN: 978-85-7511-264-9
By moving between Fortaleza, Barcelona, and southern Italy; labor and marriage markets; gender studies and international migrations; political economy and human agency, Adriana Piscitelli offers us an excellent long-term multi-sited ethnography that connects gender and sexuality, international migration, labor markets, and national identity in an unequal world.
Her book problematizes debates and deconstructs mega-concepts—among them human trafficking and prostitution—sensitively revealing how its protagonists reframe their social capital and the stereotypes of Brazilianness in specific contexts, in pursuit of their dreams and family strategies.
Read a review of the book here.