Sun, Sex, and Gold Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean

by Kempadoo, Kamala; Anders, Jessica Tomiko; Antonius-Smits, Christel; Cabezas, Amalia L.; Campbell, Shirley; Davidson, Julia O'Connell; Fernandez, Nadine; Ghuma, Ranya; Martis, Jacqueline; Mayorga, Laura; Mellon, Cynthia; Mohammed, Patricia; Mullings, Bever

• ISBN13: 9780847695171
• ISBN10: 0847695174
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-27
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a desire by North Americans and Europeans for an experience of 'exotic' cultures, are often claimed to be the cause. This volume explores the connections between the global economy and sex work, focusing on the experiences and views of women, men, and children who sell sex. Apart from attention to sex tourism in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, and Jamaica, the book also examines sex work in the gold mining industry in the hinterlands of Suriname and Guyana, and in the entertainment sector in Belize and the Dutch Antilles. It presents new insights into the Caribbean sex trade and provides proposals and strategies for addressing the situation in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Map	ix
Part 1: Introduction
Continuities and Change: Five Centuries of Prostitution in the Caribbean	3	(34)
Kamala Kempadoo
Part 2: Tourism, Globalization, and ``The Exotic''
Fantasy Islands: Exploring the Demand for Sex Tourism	37	(18)
Julia O'Connell Davidson
Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor
Globalization, Tourism, and the International Sex Trade	55	(26)
Beverley Mullings
Back to the Future? Women, Race, and Tourism in Cuba	81	(12)
Nadine Fernandez
Part 3: The Hustle and Struggle Sector
Women's Work Is Never Done: Sex Tourism in Sosua, the Dominican Republic	93	(32)
Amalia L. Cabezas
``Come to Jamaica and Feel t111 Right'': Tourism and the Sex Trade	125	(32)
Shirley Campbell
Althea Perkins
Patricia Mohammed
Bleak Pasts, Bleak Futures: Life Paths of Thirteen Young Prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia	157	(26)
Laura Mayorga
Pilar Velasquez
Tourist-Oriented Prostitution in Barbados: The Case of the Beach Boy and the White Female Tourist	183	(18)
Joan L. Phillips
Tourism and the Sex Trade in St. Maarten and Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles	201	(16)
Jacqueline Martis
The Muchachas of Orange Walk Town, Belize	217	(20)
A. Kathleen Ragsdale
Jessica Tomiko Anders
Gold and Commercial Sex: Exploring the Link between Small-scale Gold Mining and Commercial Sex in the Rainforest of Suriname	237	(26)
Christel C. F. Antonius-Smits
Part 4: Strategies for the Twenty-first Century
``Givin' Lil' Bit fuh Lil' Bit'': Women and Sex Work in Guyana	263	(28)
Red Thread Women's Development Programme
For the Children: Trends in International Policies and Law on Sex Tourism	291	(18)
Kamala Kempadoo
Ranya Ghuma
A Human Rights Perspective on the Sex Trade in the Caribbean and Beyond	309	(14)
Cynthia Mellon
Bibliography	323	(22)
Index	345	(10)
About the Editor and Contributors	355