Conclusions and recommendations
- Authors: Bridget Anderson and Julia O’Connell Davidson
- Main Title: Is Trafficking in Human Beings Demand Driven? , pp 41-47
- Publication Date: December 2003
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/48b5fa70-en
- Language: English
Demand for both commercial sexual services and the labour of domestic workers, like demand in all markets, is very much a socially, culturally and historically determined matter. It is also intimately related to questions concerning supply or availability; indeed, we could almost say that supply generates demand rather than the other way round. There is no absolute or given level of demand for the services of lap-dancers in any society, for example, and before the relatively recent advent of lap-dance clubs, no one bemoaned their absence. Similarly, and as illustrated by the interview data from western expatriates in Thailand and Hong Kong, the availability, acceptability and affordability of live-in domestic workers can stimulate demand among people who had never before thought of themselves as “needing” to consume large quantities of paid domestic labour on a daily basis.
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