2014/04/30 by Christian Groes‐Green · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · #African history and culture studies #Sex work and related issues #African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues #Kinship #Adventure #Transactional sex #White (mutation) #Transactional leadership #Consumption (sociology) #Sociology #Gender studies #Economy #Demographic economics #Psychology #Social psychology #Demography #Economics #History #Anthropology #Population
paper · doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12102
openalex publication_date 2014/04/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
The article explores how young M ozambican women's migratory trajectories towards E urope are shaped by sexual relationships with older white men and obligations towards female kin. Triads of exchange between young women known as curtidoras (women enjoying life) and their partners and kin in M aputo are understood through theories of patronage and exchange moralities. Searching for respect, adventure, and consumption in the sexual economy, young women at the same time struggle to ensure their families' well‐being by redistributing the money they extract from white men. Sexual‐monetary transactions, love, and desire must be understood as part of broader moralities of exchange in which migration to E urope and sending of remittances is also a kinship project. The forms of patronage available in M aputo's sexual economy become stepping stones as well as obstacles to migration northwards.