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Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears (2014)
Book
Sandy, L. (2014). Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315762777

© 2014 Larissa Sandy. All rights reserved. Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the p... Read More about Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears.

International politics, anti-trafficking measures and sex work in Cambodia (2012)
Book Chapter
Sandy, L. (2012). International politics, anti-trafficking measures and sex work in Cambodia. In M. Ford, L. Lyons, & W. van Schendel (Eds.), Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia : Critical Perspectives (41-56). Routledge

Cambodia has long been identified as a human trafficking ‘hotspot’ (see Molland in this volume) and, after sustained pressure from the US and other governments, in February 2008 the Royal Government of Cambodia promulgated its Law on the Suppression... Read More about International politics, anti-trafficking measures and sex work in Cambodia.

'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia (2009)
Journal Article
Sandy, L. (2009). 'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 10(3), 216-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442210903114223

In the trafficking discourse and international law, debt-bonded sex workers have been defined as 'victims of trafficking'. The hyperexploitative contractual arrangements faced by debt-bonded sex workers may be the most common form of contemporary for... Read More about 'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.

Just choices: Representations of choice and coercion in sex work in Cambodia (2007)
Journal Article
Sandy, L. (2007). Just choices: Representations of choice and coercion in sex work in Cambodia. Australian Journal of Anthropology, 18(2), 194-206. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.2007.tb00088.x

In global discourses about sex work, the image of the 'sex slave' has been influential in constructing the view of women working in the sex industry in developing countries as 'victims'. This paper examines the perpetuation of such discourses through... Read More about Just choices: Representations of choice and coercion in sex work in Cambodia.

Sex work in Cambodia: Beyond the voluntary/forced dichotomy (2006)
Journal Article
Sandy, L. (2006). Sex work in Cambodia: Beyond the voluntary/forced dichotomy. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 15(4), 449-469. https://doi.org/10.1177/011719680601500402

This paper looks at the dominant voluntary/forced dichotomy shaping understandings of sex work internationally. It argues that the distinction between forced and voluntary participation in sex work cannot account for or help explain the multiple and... Read More about Sex work in Cambodia: Beyond the voluntary/forced dichotomy.