Prostitution adolescente et économie domestique dans le contexte portuaire de Pucallpa (Amazonie péruvienne)

The sexual exploitation of adolescents is a phenomenon that has grown with the expansion of extractive industries (timber, oil, minerals and gas) in the Peruvian Amazon. The article presents results of a long fieldwork in the city of Pucallpa and the route north of the Ucayali River. It emphasizes t...

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Main Authors: Robin Cavagnoud, Jaris Mujica
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Université Paris 3 2011-12-01
Series:Cahiers des Amériques Latines
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cal/193
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Summary:The sexual exploitation of adolescents is a phenomenon that has grown with the expansion of extractive industries (timber, oil, minerals and gas) in the Peruvian Amazon. The article presents results of a long fieldwork in the city of Pucallpa and the route north of the Ucayali River. It emphasizes the mechanisms of exploitation performing local sexual trade of adolescents in restau­rants, bars and sawmills around the river port. The practice of this kind of prosti­tution is attached to the trade of food and alcoholic beverages in spaces with impor­tant male presence. This phenomenon is not due to an organized criminal logical, but to a strategy of domestic return linked to family network and running on from an economy of care in situation of precariousness.
ISSN:1141-7161
2268-4247