Adolescentes en situación de prostitución en Madagascarfactores de vulnerabilidad y factores de protección en el contexto de la globalización neoliberal

Abstract

The latest Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women [CEDAW] report on Madagascar warns of an alarming increase in sex tourism on the island, involving an increasing number of adolescent girls (Convention sur l'élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination à l'égard des femmes [CEDEF], 2015). While this phenomenon has been extensively studied in the Caribbean, Southeast Asian and Eastern European regions (O’Connell, 2005), there is less scientific evidence on how this type of tourism is articulated in other countries or regions of the world. In the specific case of Madagascar, research is practically non-existent. The doctoral thesis, Adolescent girls in prostitution in Madagascar: vulnerability factors and protective factors in the context of neoliberal globalisation, aims to nourish this scientific literature, providing a better understanding and new knowledge about the way in which these relationships between foreign tourists and Malagasy adolescent girls are articulated on the Red Island...