Searching for South America: Secret Agents, Police Officers and Pimps in the League of Nations in the 1920s

This article examines the cultural encounters among League of Nations’ special agents and official authorities of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro in the first international investigation on traffic of women. Marked by cultural distances, such encounters resulted in the emergence of an idea of “South...

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Main Author: Cristiana Schettini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Iberoamericana / Vervuert 2017-03-01
Series:Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal
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Online Access:http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/2235