I've got a massive headache, so I won't be in class tonight.
Here's my bibliography, etc.:

1. Anderson, Michelle J. "A License to Abuse: The Impact of Conditional Status on Female Immigrants." The Yale Law Journal 102 (1993): 1401-430.

Anderson retells personal stories of immigrant women who are battered in their marriages. Their husbands take advantage of their unstable residential statuses, telling them that they cannot get help without risk of deportation. She notes that immigrant women often do not even speak English, and so are less likely to be able to receive help, even if they do manage to find possible sources of rescue.


2. Narayan, Uma. "'Male-Order' Brides: Immigrant Women, Domestic Violence and Immigration Law." Hypatia 10 (1995): 104-19.

Narayan talks about the domestic abuse that often awaits mail-order brides. Their husbands threaten to turn them in to INS if they attempt to get help, and they are unable to get out of their marriages because they could possibly lose all chances of citizenship and/or residency. She also analyzes the governmental problems that harm these immigrant women and, essentially, support their abuse.


3. Raymond, Janice G., Donna M. Hughes, and Carol J. Gomez. Sex Trafficking of Women in the United States. Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. 16 Apr. 2001. University of Rhode Island.

This project is, in and of itself, a book on the subject of human trafficking. It gives overviews of the trafficking problems, details about specific trafficking operations and their locales, and explanations of the types of experiences these women go through. It has, essentially, everything from the pimps to the purchasers, from the initial contact to imprisonment and forced sex. A gold-mine of information on the topic.



Possible Films

“So Great a Violence: Prostitution, Trafficking and the Global Sex Industry”

“The Day My God Died”

Though they don't necessarily deal with Asian Americans, they do deal with human trafficking and forced sex within it. There wasn't a whole lot I could find on human trafficking in the US regarding Asians.