To browse Academia. Liat Kozma. This article examines the migration of women for prostitution around the Mediterranean Sea, particularly to and within the Middle East and North Africa, in the interwar period.
Lucia Carminati. This article fills a gap in the histories describing the struggle to end trafficking and prostitution. The aim of the article is to show how the transition of the issue of prostitution developed from being mainly of national even nationalistic interest to becoming a matter of international concern. A shift in terminology opened for an internationalisation of the fight against trafficking. The firsthand accounts of European and American women travelers of the 17 th to early 20 th centuries in Asia Minor, Cyprus, Syria, Egypt, Greece and other Ottoman occupied territories confirm that thousands of women travelled and witnessed historic events.
Women from Great Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and America explored, visited, resided as permanent residents, worked or served as volunteers, missionaries, educators, nurses, artists, governesses, ladies in waiting and servants of the western or eastern elite in different regions of the Ottoman Empire.
The accounts of English, French and G Ilaria Marconi. Adam Mestyan. Naor Ben-Yehoyada. This article offers recent dynamics of unauthorized migration and interception in the central Mediterranean as an example of historical anthropology of transnational region formation. It exemplifies how we can rescale classical themes in Mediterraneanist anthropology โ hospitality, in this case โ to illuminate transnational processes.
I argue that anthropologists actually share with human rights advocates and European officials these ways of thinking about the scales of the moral and the political dimensions of migration, and I offer an alternative understanding of the scales of action, responsibility, and sovereignty as well as a clue about how regions come to life.
