“White Slavery,” Citizenship and Nationality in Argentina

The history of citizenship has often lost sight of women, understandably, since women have been so often excluded from the fraternal imaginings that constitute a citizenry. This essay hopes to fill in some of that spotty history by reviewing how female nationality came to be (re)defined at the turn of the century as a result of international conflict. In what was sensationalized as the Argentine “White Slave Trade/&s; European and Latin American women became more than simply vehicles for sexual traffic; they were the pretexts for defining one nation&s;s sovereignty against another&s;s.

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