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Gridlock : Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai.

The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors--but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however, d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mahdavi, Pardis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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