Summary Of Brennan's Ethnographic Research

This period of our lives is a one bursting with challenging events and life-changing transitions, don’t you think? However testing this phase may be though, it's how we accept and counteract these alterations that ultimately opens up a deeper understanding of our world and self. J.C. Burke’s thought provoking novel, ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ and John Marsden and Matt Ottley’s heartbreaking picture book ‘Home and away’, address this concept of transition and their challenges associated as each protagonist undergoes a catastrophic journey surrounding a challenged attitude and the need for maturity development.

Sex tourism in the Dominican Republic is very common. It is defined as an organize vacation with the purpose to have sexual activities with foreign people because of the lack of restriction in the country. It sounds pretty likely as prostitution, but the difference is that sex tourism is only for tourists and prostitution is for everyone. Many women in the Dominican Republic define themselves as sex workers ', who get together with a representative to organize their sexual activities with their clients. However, those women do not identify themselves as prostitutes. Nowadays, not only women are involved in sex tourism, but underage girls too. These girls are being forced to have sexual activities with tourists without their consent these girls are involved into the many risks such as being raped and sold or killed, the used by alcohol and other drugs and get affected by any transitional sexual illness, like HIV. Non-consensual sex tourist where underage girls are being forced to rely on the money needs both for family and company, and also tourist interests and wants.

Ethnographic research is the scientific description of specific human cultures, foreign to the ethnographer. Each ethnographer has his or her own way of conducting research and all of these different ideas can be transmitted and understood in a number of different ways. Because there is no one set idea of how an ethnographer should go about his or her research, conflicts arise. In Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco, Paul Rabinow uses a story like process to discuss his experiences during his research in Morocco. This makes it easier for the reader to understand his ideas then just having a technical book about the many different aspects of Moroccan life that he may have discovered. In Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of

Claire E. Sterk 's article Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in Era of AIDS ' published by Social Change Press in 2000 takes into account the patterns and procedures that anthropologists take into practice during fieldwork. She provides some useful insights and learnt lessons during her studies with prostitutes. She also provides a close and intimate account of their lives and mental state in their own words. Her findings are substantiated with proper examples in the accounts of the daily lives of these women. Unlike most student’s expectation of fieldwork as a leisure activity at some serene place, Sterk observes the pain associated with the lifestyle and brings into light some important patterns and procedures that anthropologists must consider while interviewing a research group.

Brennan explored the women's economic survival strategies in the face of extreme poverty, and for most, single motherhood. In What's Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic the sex workers, and this sex tourism are more than a means of survival they are an advancement strategy that hinges on participants successful performance. This type of performance is a relationship of convenience and not love. However, what is new for sex workers is how they turned a commercialized sexual transaction into a marriage as transaction operation in a globalized world where legal crossing of national borders requires passports and visas.

Lydia’s Open Door by American Anthropologist Patty Kelly is an intriguing case study about both the hidden and not so hidden aspects of sex work in Chiapas, Mexico. Her book proves the usefulness of ethnographic works where she engages with unconventional ways of knowing in order to determine the complex relationships that help to reproduce gender inequality. Lydia’s Open Door contextualizes prostitution within a political and economic framework revealing how it is impossible to diagnose one without the others. She uses both macro and micro-analysis to deconstruct the variability in how prostitution is practiced, regulated and perceived through space and time. Throughout her ethnography she discusses how globalization and

While conducting my ethnography I have interviewed five All-Girl members, and four Coed members of the Spirit program. By interviewing one more All-Girl members I hope to even out my biases due to being a part of the Coed team. Yet, before defining the differences found between the two teams, I will share the apparent similarities. Both teams show strong linguistic accommodations which I have observed at numerous appearances, such as changing the way one would speak due to their audience. When present at an appearance all members of the Spirit program are expected to intermingle and socialize with attendees. During the course of this exchange it became apparent that accommodating for the age of audience drastically changed the way the team members spoke. For example, when Jules Wazny was speaking to an elderly man she reduced the tempo at which she spoke and asked questions about the game and respectfully shook his hand; yet when she was speaking to a child she spoke in a higher pitch tone, offered the child her poms to play with, and asked questions such as how old the child was. These actions represent convergence, changing ones language to better fit the style of the recipient, which was not only found with All-Girl Cheerleader Jules Wazny, but also throughout the program. An example from a Coed member was Vivi Benbrook changing how she spoke with a middle age male, in a calm and respectful manor asking questions of the game such as where his seats where, and if he thought we were going to win. Contrast this to when she spoke to an elderly women, she used a higher pitch when asking if she was excited, and telling her to stay warm in this cold weather. All members, once wearing affiliated attire, whether it is practice gear,

The chapter that I selected to focus on was “ Selling Sex for Visas: Sex Tourism as a Stepping-Stone to International Migration” by Denise Brennan. The primary argument and main point of the author is some females in the Dominican Republic sex work for necessity, leaving behind their children and family in look for a better life.

This is my first time that I come to New York, so I am curious about many things in this new place, such as the famous resorts, and the people here. As we know, the Times Square is very famous in New York. When I was in China, I hope I can visit Times Square, because I saw Times Square was very great in some of the opening of American series. Now, I am in New York, and I have enough chances to visit Times Square whenever I want. In there, it gives me a new horizon to understand the culture that is different from China.

Book Review The book The Devil behind the Mirror is written by Steven Gregory it is about how globalization affects the people living in the Dominican Republic towns named Boca Chica and Andrés, Gregory study how transnational flows of capital, culture, and people are mediated by contextually specific power relations, politics, and history. He studies the informal economy, the making of a telenovela, sex tourism, and racism and discrimination against Haitians in the Dominican Republic. The topics that will be discussed are the politics of Transnational Capital. Gregory’s topic on the politics of Transnational Capital is about how Dominican Republic’s capital goes through a series changes and he shows how tourism changes the dynamics capitalism in

Steven Gregory’s book entitled The Devil Behind The Mirror is an ethnographical study of the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is in the Caribbean, it occupies the Western half of an island, while Haiti makes up the Eastern portion. Gregory attempts to study and analyze the political, social and cultural aspects of this nation by interviewing and observing both the tourists and locals of two towns Boca Chica and Andres. Gregory’s research centers on globalization and the transnational processes which affect the political and socio-economics of the Dominican Republic. He focuses on the social culture, gender roles, economy, individual and nation identity, also authority and power relations. Several of the major relevant issues

Reluctant Bedfellows is a book that shows the research of two depicted women who spent 5 years doing research on sex tourism in the Philipians and

Prostitution, as stated by Flemming, is known as a form of sexual activity, a kind of sexual style or category, and a form of economic activity, a way of making a living through the provisions of certain services, by behaving in accordance with, or falling into such a category (39). This definition, though, is controversial. While conducting research for this project, we found that most topics regarding prostitution and its affiliates were controversial. Each author gave a differing interpretation for the same data. Due to this, our project centered on the female prostitutes, even though there is evidence of male prostitutes.

To examine Cynthia Enloe 's argument that the "personal is political", we must first define what "personal is political" means in regards to feminist international politics. In order to demonstrate how the personal is political, or the political is personal, we look at the obstacles women encounter in their everyday lives and how they are actually a part of a larger social construction of male dominance. Women need to see their personal struggles in the bigger picture of societal gender inequality. This idea is explored by Enloe in terms of international tourism by looking at how gendered the industry is, the types of employment women find or are forced into in the tourism industry, and the role they play in representing their country to the white, male tourist.

There is a great contradiction in terms talking about sex tourism, if this trade happens between adults and with the agreement of both sides, organizations responsible for combating it, say it is a phenomenon that can not be measured because it is supposed to be exercised freely. < < although we are aware that this is not the reality, that many people sold their body for some food, and are simply slaves of poverty and have no other option> > says Debora d'' Aleva , a member of ECPAT ( End Child Prostitution , Pornography And Trafficking in children for sexual ministering purposes ),an ONG organization working to completely eliminate child abuse in tourist destinations .