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A Harsh Price to Pay in Pursuit of a Dream: For Central American Women, Sexual Coercion Is Hazard on Route to U.S.

Date: December 6, 2004

Author: Mary Jordan

QUOTE: "If you come to my office and lie down with me, you can pass." That was the ... price of passage to the United States.

ABSTRACT: In this article Jordan tells the story of one Central American woman's unsuccessful attempt to get to America to find work and her resulting life of prostitution in a Mexican border town (apparently a common plight for female migrants who fail to make it across the Mexican border).

--- O. Overman

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Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Law & Justice
  • Criminal Law
    • Prostitution/Sodomy

• Social Sciences & Groups
  • Economics: General
    • Income Distribution/Poverty
  • Multi-Cultural/Minority Issues
    • Ethnic Groups
      • Hispanics/Latinos
    • Immigrants/Refugees

• Central America / Caribbean
  • Guatemala
  • Honduras

• North America
  • Mexico
  • United States of America/USA

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