Kamala Kempadoo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 137704 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kamala Kempadoo |
| NOMBRES | Kamala |
| APELLIDO | Kempadoo |
| FIRMA | KEMPADOO K |
| AFILIACIONES | York University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 373 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 10 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Inspirations and Influences
This essay is a brief reflection on the impacts of Rhoda Reddock's life and work for over forty years on the author's own academic journey to becoming an antiracist, Caribbean (socialist) feminist. It focuses on three dimensions—namely, an early definition of feminism, Reddock's attention to intersections of race and ethnicity, class, and gender in the Caribbean, including “douglarization”; and Caribbean women's (sexual) agency and autonomy. This…
Global sex work research collaborations before the anti-trafficking industry
The special issue co-editors (Lyndsey Beutin, April Petillo, and Elena Shih) sat down with Kamala Kempadoo and long-time collaborator Amalia Cabezas on July 26, 2024, over Zoom to hear about what sex work research was like before the anti-trafficking framework cannibalized the sex workers' rights movement
White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking
This chapter explores the contemporary experience of Jamaican sex workers against two visions of slavery’s wrong. It argues that because it reads contract as freedom, current anti- traffi cking discourse is forced to deny the ethnographic realities of phenomena it dubs “modern slavery.” A focus on what it means to live in the wake of racial slavery affords a more useful lens through which to analyze the restraints on freedom experienced by Jamaic…
White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking
Japanese Sex Workers
The Prostitution Prevention Law in Japan prohibits direct sexual intercourse for money, so other forms of sexual services have developed. Also, in Japan the border is blurring between professional women and amateurs. Housewives and students can easily get involved in the sex industry as a form of part-time job. It is true that a lot of men in Japan like a sex worker with a "non-professional" image. Many customers need mental liberation just as mu…
The Exotic Dancers Alliance
Johanna: The main reason for trying to organize women together in 1992 was to look at the working conditions and the situation at hand with regards to the stage fee. The management at the Market Street Cinema had just decided to raise the stage fee from $10 to $20, and there wasn’t really any justification for this. Conditions were still the same, the dressing rooms were still substandard, and the customers weren’t necessarily being charged any m…
International Activism
Q: What has motivated you to stay working on prostitution for close to twenty years?
Women, Labor, and Migration
"Traffic in women" is a broad category covering various forms of exploitation and violence within a range of labor sectors that migrant women work in, including prostitution, entertainment industries and domestic work. Looking at trafficking from the perspective of the majority of the women people are concerned with, it is clear that most women come to Western Europe because they are looking for a better way to make a living. The growing gap betw…
Coin and Modemu in the Dominican Republic
Centro de Orientacion Integral (COIN) developed from a national concern in the Dominican Republic with the spread of AIDS and the HIV virus. From 1985, various steps were taken by the government to reach and educate sexual workers about HIV and AIDS and to improve public health. A large part of COIN&s;s foundational work lay in researching the sex trade in the Dominican Republic for the creation of educational materials and out-reach methods suit…
The Migrant Tightrope
This chapter focuses on the Dutch Caribbean and in particular, on a small island, Curacao. In 1944 this island was established by the colonial government as a center in the region for prostitution by migrant women and it continues to exist as such today. Curacao is not the only place in the Caribbean region that hosts a sex industry that is dependent upon migrant workers. Migrant sex workers from Colombia and the Dominican Republic are predominan…
It’s Good to Know
Women in the clubs think they have passed the street stage, feel as if they are elevated. Once a person goes to a club, he/she have a kind of bias—one thinks he/she is better than the women on the street. There are forty-five clubs registered with the Dermatological Clinic, and that&s;s not the full amount in Suriname. There are about twenty or thirty something that are not licensed. The women were not really helping each other on the street. Eve…
Global Sex Workers
Global Sex Workers presents the personal experiences of sex workers around the world. Drawing on their individual narratives, it explores international struggles to uphold the rights of this often marginalized group
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
A Sex Work Research Symposium
Historically, academic literature on sex work has documented the changing debates, policies, and cultural discourse surrounding the sex industry, and their impact on the rights of sex workers worldwide. As sex work scholars look to the future of sex workers’ rights, however, we are also in a critical moment of self-reflection on how sex work scholarship engages with sex worker communities, produces knowledge surrounding sex work, and represents t…
Bound Coolies’ and Other Indentured Workers in the Caribbean
Under systems of indenture in the Caribbean, Europeans such as Irish, Scots and Portuguese, as well as Asians, primarily Indians, Chinese and Indonesians, were recruited, often under false pretences, and transported to the ‘New World’, where they were bound to an employer and the plantation in a state of ‘interlocking incarceration’. Indentureship not only preceded, co-existed with, and survived slavery in the Caribbean, but was distinct in law a…
Revitalizando o imperialismo
No Canadá atual, as questões envolvendo o tráfico humano estão em alta na agenda pública. Uma variedade de atividades é incluída dentro dessa rubrica, incluindo a prostituição doméstica, na qual cruzar fronteiras nacionais ou internas não é um pré-requisito para como o Estado define o tráfico. O Canadá não está sozinho em sua definição expansiva de tráfico humano. Globalmente, trabalho sexual/prostituição, 'tráfico sexual', trabalho infantil, tra…
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
The Modern-Day White (Wo)Man's Burden
In the early 1990s, the debate on human trafficking was restricted to a handful of feminists and revolved around establishing “the trafficking of women” as a case of labor migration or one of “female sexual slavery.” Two decades later, the debate is more complicated and widespread, yet within the proliferation of attention, a convergence among some of the most vocal and visible campaigns is discernible. This article takes up three prominent campa…
The war on human trafficking in the Caribbean
Encouraged by the US, the Caribbean is being drawn into a global panic over human trafficking, leading to greater policing and surveillance of migrant women and the sex trade. Drawing on colonial precedents, the moral outrage about women trafficked into prostitution, embodied in legislation such as the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act, obscures the deeper causes of exploitation and oppression and leads to the demonisation of those in undocum…
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
Introduction Abolitionism, Criminal Justice, and Transnational Feminism : Twenty-first-century Perspectives on Human Trafficking Kamala Kempadoo Shifting Paradigms Globalization, Labor Migration, and Human Rights: Unpacking the Trafficking Discourse Jyoti Sanghera Cross-Border Movements and the Law: Renegotiating the Boundaries of Difference Ratna Kapur Miles Away: The Trouble with Prevention in the Greater Mekong sub-region Phil Marshall and Sus…
Mudando o debate sobre o tráfico de mulheres
Neste texto apresento perspectivas e abordagens importantes no debate internacional sobre o tráfico de pessoas, e sublinho alguns dos principais pontos de crítica sobre o referencial contemporâneo hegemônico, pontos esses articulados através de projetos de pesquisa-ação e de intervenções contra o tráfico nas bases da sociedade. Argumento que, a despeito de mudanças substanciais no entendimento global sobre o tráfico, fortemente influenciadas por …
Sexing the Caribbean
Sexing the Caribbean
Sexing the Caribbean examines the complex and often contradictory ways in which sex and sexuality have been constructed in the Caribbean region. Challenging the dominant image of the Caribbean as simply a site of sexual tourism and exploitation, Kamala Kempadoo explores how Caribbean people themselves have negotiated and contested these representations. Drawing on a range of historical and contemporary sources, including literature, film, music, …
Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade
Research Article| March 01 2001 Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade: Transnational Feminist Perspectives Kamala Kempadoo Kamala Kempadoo kamala kempadoo is Acting Head of the Mona Unit of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, while on leave from the Women's Studies Department at the University of Colorado. She is editor of Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition and Sun, S…
Freelancers, Temporary Wives, and Beach-Boys
This article presents insights from a research project on sex work that took place in the Caribbean region during 1997-8. First it briefly summarizes common themes in historical and contemporary studies of sex work in the region, then describes the aims, methodology, and main trends of the project. It pays particular attention to the differences between definitions and experiences of sex work by female and male sex workers and of male and female …
Global Sex Workers
Global Sex Workers presents the personal experiences of sex workers around the world. Drawing on their individual narratives, it explores international struggles to uphold the rights of this often marginalized group
Sexing the Caribbean
Sexing the Caribbean examines the complex and often contradictory ways in which sex and sexuality have been constructed in the Caribbean region. Challenging the dominant image of the Caribbean as simply a site of sexual tourism and exploitation, Kamala Kempadoo explores how Caribbean people themselves have negotiated and contested these representations. Drawing on a range of historical and contemporary sources, including literature, film, music, …
The Modern-Day White (Wo)Man's Burden
In the early 1990s, the debate on human trafficking was restricted to a handful of feminists and revolved around establishing “the trafficking of women” as a case of labor migration or one of “female sexual slavery.” Two decades later, the debate is more complicated and widespread, yet within the proliferation of attention, a convergence among some of the most vocal and visible campaigns is discernible. This article takes up three prominent campa…
Freelancers, Temporary Wives, and Beach-Boys
This article presents insights from a research project on sex work that took place in the Caribbean region during 1997-8. First it briefly summarizes common themes in historical and contemporary studies of sex work in the region, then describes the aims, methodology, and main trends of the project. It pays particular attention to the differences between definitions and experiences of sex work by female and male sex workers and of male and female …
Mudando o debate sobre o tráfico de mulheres
Neste texto apresento perspectivas e abordagens importantes no debate internacional sobre o tráfico de pessoas, e sublinho alguns dos principais pontos de crítica sobre o referencial contemporâneo hegemônico, pontos esses articulados através de projetos de pesquisa-ação e de intervenções contra o tráfico nas bases da sociedade. Argumento que, a despeito de mudanças substanciais no entendimento global sobre o tráfico, fortemente influenciadas por …
Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade
Research Article| March 01 2001 Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade: Transnational Feminist Perspectives Kamala Kempadoo Kamala Kempadoo kamala kempadoo is Acting Head of the Mona Unit of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, while on leave from the Women's Studies Department at the University of Colorado. She is editor of Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition and Sun, S…
The war on human trafficking in the Caribbean
Encouraged by the US, the Caribbean is being drawn into a global panic over human trafficking, leading to greater policing and surveillance of migrant women and the sex trade. Drawing on colonial precedents, the moral outrage about women trafficked into prostitution, embodied in legislation such as the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act, obscures the deeper causes of exploitation and oppression and leads to the demonisation of those in undocum…
Slavery or Work? Reconceptualizing Third World Prostitution
Other| February 01 1999 Slavery or Work? Reconceptualizing Third World Prostitution Kamala Kempadoo Kamala Kempadoo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (1): 225–237. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-1-225 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kamala Kempadoo; Slavery or Work? Reconceptualizing Third World Prostitution. positions 1 February 1999…
Bound Coolies’ and Other Indentured Workers in the Caribbean
Under systems of indenture in the Caribbean, Europeans such as Irish, Scots and Portuguese, as well as Asians, primarily Indians, Chinese and Indonesians, were recruited, often under false pretences, and transported to the ‘New World’, where they were bound to an employer and the plantation in a state of ‘interlocking incarceration’. Indentureship not only preceded, co-existed with, and survived slavery in the Caribbean, but was distinct in law a…
Revitalizando o imperialismo
No Canadá atual, as questões envolvendo o tráfico humano estão em alta na agenda pública. Uma variedade de atividades é incluída dentro dessa rubrica, incluindo a prostituição doméstica, na qual cruzar fronteiras nacionais ou internas não é um pré-requisito para como o Estado define o tráfico. O Canadá não está sozinho em sua definição expansiva de tráfico humano. Globalmente, trabalho sexual/prostituição, 'tráfico sexual', trabalho infantil, tra…
Global Sex Workers
Sun, Sex, and Gold
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…
Slavery or Work? Reconceptualizing Third World Prostitution
Other| February 01 1999 Slavery or Work? Reconceptualizing Third World Prostitution Kamala Kempadoo Kamala Kempadoo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (1): 225–237. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-1-225 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kamala Kempadoo; Slavery or Work? Reconceptualizing Third World Prostitution. positions 1 February 1999…
Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade
Research Article| March 01 2001 Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade: Transnational Feminist Perspectives Kamala Kempadoo Kamala Kempadoo kamala kempadoo is Acting Head of the Mona Unit of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, while on leave from the Women's Studies Department at the University of Colorado. She is editor of Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition and Sun, S…
Freelancers, Temporary Wives, and Beach-Boys
This article presents insights from a research project on sex work that took place in the Caribbean region during 1997-8. First it briefly summarizes common themes in historical and contemporary studies of sex work in the region, then describes the aims, methodology, and main trends of the project. It pays particular attention to the differences between definitions and experiences of sex work by female and male sex workers and of male and female …
Sexing the Caribbean
Sexing the Caribbean
Sexing the Caribbean examines the complex and often contradictory ways in which sex and sexuality have been constructed in the Caribbean region. Challenging the dominant image of the Caribbean as simply a site of sexual tourism and exploitation, Kamala Kempadoo explores how Caribbean people themselves have negotiated and contested these representations. Drawing on a range of historical and contemporary sources, including literature, film, music, …
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
Introduction Abolitionism, Criminal Justice, and Transnational Feminism : Twenty-first-century Perspectives on Human Trafficking Kamala Kempadoo Shifting Paradigms Globalization, Labor Migration, and Human Rights: Unpacking the Trafficking Discourse Jyoti Sanghera Cross-Border Movements and the Law: Renegotiating the Boundaries of Difference Ratna Kapur Miles Away: The Trouble with Prevention in the Greater Mekong sub-region Phil Marshall and Sus…
Mudando o debate sobre o tráfico de mulheres
Neste texto apresento perspectivas e abordagens importantes no debate internacional sobre o tráfico de pessoas, e sublinho alguns dos principais pontos de crítica sobre o referencial contemporâneo hegemônico, pontos esses articulados através de projetos de pesquisa-ação e de intervenções contra o tráfico nas bases da sociedade. Argumento que, a despeito de mudanças substanciais no entendimento global sobre o tráfico, fortemente influenciadas por …
The war on human trafficking in the Caribbean
Encouraged by the US, the Caribbean is being drawn into a global panic over human trafficking, leading to greater policing and surveillance of migrant women and the sex trade. Drawing on colonial precedents, the moral outrage about women trafficked into prostitution, embodied in legislation such as the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act, obscures the deeper causes of exploitation and oppression and leads to the demonisation of those in undocum…
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
The Modern-Day White (Wo)Man's Burden
In the early 1990s, the debate on human trafficking was restricted to a handful of feminists and revolved around establishing “the trafficking of women” as a case of labor migration or one of “female sexual slavery.” Two decades later, the debate is more complicated and widespread, yet within the proliferation of attention, a convergence among some of the most vocal and visible campaigns is discernible. This article takes up three prominent campa…
Revitalizando o imperialismo
No Canadá atual, as questões envolvendo o tráfico humano estão em alta na agenda pública. Uma variedade de atividades é incluída dentro dessa rubrica, incluindo a prostituição doméstica, na qual cruzar fronteiras nacionais ou internas não é um pré-requisito para como o Estado define o tráfico. O Canadá não está sozinho em sua definição expansiva de tráfico humano. Globalmente, trabalho sexual/prostituição, 'tráfico sexual', trabalho infantil, tra…
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
A Sex Work Research Symposium
Historically, academic literature on sex work has documented the changing debates, policies, and cultural discourse surrounding the sex industry, and their impact on the rights of sex workers worldwide. As sex work scholars look to the future of sex workers’ rights, however, we are also in a critical moment of self-reflection on how sex work scholarship engages with sex worker communities, produces knowledge surrounding sex work, and represents t…
Bound Coolies’ and Other Indentured Workers in the Caribbean
Under systems of indenture in the Caribbean, Europeans such as Irish, Scots and Portuguese, as well as Asians, primarily Indians, Chinese and Indonesians, were recruited, often under false pretences, and transported to the ‘New World’, where they were bound to an employer and the plantation in a state of ‘interlocking incarceration’. Indentureship not only preceded, co-existed with, and survived slavery in the Caribbean, but was distinct in law a…
Japanese Sex Workers
The Prostitution Prevention Law in Japan prohibits direct sexual intercourse for money, so other forms of sexual services have developed. Also, in Japan the border is blurring between professional women and amateurs. Housewives and students can easily get involved in the sex industry as a form of part-time job. It is true that a lot of men in Japan like a sex worker with a "non-professional" image. Many customers need mental liberation just as mu…
The Exotic Dancers Alliance
Johanna: The main reason for trying to organize women together in 1992 was to look at the working conditions and the situation at hand with regards to the stage fee. The management at the Market Street Cinema had just decided to raise the stage fee from $10 to $20, and there wasn’t really any justification for this. Conditions were still the same, the dressing rooms were still substandard, and the customers weren’t necessarily being charged any m…
International Activism
Q: What has motivated you to stay working on prostitution for close to twenty years?
Women, Labor, and Migration
"Traffic in women" is a broad category covering various forms of exploitation and violence within a range of labor sectors that migrant women work in, including prostitution, entertainment industries and domestic work. Looking at trafficking from the perspective of the majority of the women people are concerned with, it is clear that most women come to Western Europe because they are looking for a better way to make a living. The growing gap betw…
Coin and Modemu in the Dominican Republic
Centro de Orientacion Integral (COIN) developed from a national concern in the Dominican Republic with the spread of AIDS and the HIV virus. From 1985, various steps were taken by the government to reach and educate sexual workers about HIV and AIDS and to improve public health. A large part of COIN&s;s foundational work lay in researching the sex trade in the Dominican Republic for the creation of educational materials and out-reach methods suit…
The Migrant Tightrope
This chapter focuses on the Dutch Caribbean and in particular, on a small island, Curacao. In 1944 this island was established by the colonial government as a center in the region for prostitution by migrant women and it continues to exist as such today. Curacao is not the only place in the Caribbean region that hosts a sex industry that is dependent upon migrant workers. Migrant sex workers from Colombia and the Dominican Republic are predominan…
It’s Good to Know
Women in the clubs think they have passed the street stage, feel as if they are elevated. Once a person goes to a club, he/she have a kind of bias—one thinks he/she is better than the women on the street. There are forty-five clubs registered with the Dermatological Clinic, and that&s;s not the full amount in Suriname. There are about twenty or thirty something that are not licensed. The women were not really helping each other on the street. Eve…
Global Sex Workers
Global Sex Workers presents the personal experiences of sex workers around the world. Drawing on their individual narratives, it explores international struggles to uphold the rights of this often marginalized group
White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking
This chapter explores the contemporary experience of Jamaican sex workers against two visions of slavery’s wrong. It argues that because it reads contract as freedom, current anti- traffi cking discourse is forced to deny the ethnographic realities of phenomena it dubs “modern slavery.” A focus on what it means to live in the wake of racial slavery affords a more useful lens through which to analyze the restraints on freedom experienced by Jamaic…
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