Human Trafficking in Colonial Vietnam Paperback / softback
by Micheline Lessard
Part of the Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
Examining the widespread phenomenon of human trafficking in Vietnam during the period of French colonial rule, this book focuses on the practice of kidnapping or stealing Vietnamese women and children for sale in Chinese markets from the 1870s through to the 1940s. The book brings to light the fact that human trafficking between Vietnam and China existed prior to more contemporary instances of this trade.
It provides information as to the perpetrators, the nature, and the scope of this illicit commerce and its impact on the lives of its victims, who were mainly domestic servants, concubines or prostitutes.
The book also examines the ways in which French colonial actors (missionaries, administrators, military officers, adventurers and observers, and consuls) reported, described, and reacted to it, and goes on to analyse the impact of human trafficking on the concept of French ‘prestige’ and on the French colonial project in Vietnam.
Human trafficking in colonial Vietnam illustrates the tensions and the conflicts not only between the French and the Vietnamese, but also between the Vietnamese and the Chinese, as well as between the colons and the French colonial administration, and between the colonial and metropolitan governments.
The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian History, Colonial History and Criminology.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:13/10/2017
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- ISBN:9780815368052
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:13/10/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780815368052
