Main Publications

Books
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights (with Jyoti Sanghera and Bandana Pattanaik, eds). Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2005 (Second edition forthcoming)

Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor. New York: Routledge 2004. (Also available as an E-book).

Sun, Sex and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean (ed.). Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 1999.

Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition (and Jo Doezema, eds). New York: Routledge 1998.

Reports, Articles, Chapters
“’Whoring’, ‘Boopsing’ and Other Business: A Situational Analysis of Sex Work and the Sex Industry in the CARICOM (with Oonya Kempadoo, Althea Perkins and Andy Taitt).  Trinidad: UNAIDS CAR-RST, 2010.

Prostitution, Sex Work and Transactional Sex in the English-, Dutch- and French-Speaking Caribbean: A Literature Review of Definitions, Laws and Research. PANCAP/ CARICOM, 2009. http://pancap.org/docs/Global_Fund_Studies/Sex_Work_Final_Report.pdf

“Caribbean Sexuality: Mapping the Field” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. Issue 3, November 2009. http://www2.sta.uwi.edu/crgs/november2009/journals/Kempadoo.pdf

“The War on Human Trafficking in the Caribbean” Race and Class Vol. 49. no 2 ( 2007): 79-84.

Gender, Sexuality and Implications for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. A Review of Literature and Programmes  (with Andy Taitt).  UNIFEM-Caribbean Office and IDRC-Ottawa, 2006.

 “Victims and Agents of Crime: The New Crusade Against Trafficking” In Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison Industrial Complex, ed. Julia Sudbury. New York: Routledge, 2005, 35 -55.

“Mudando o debate sobre o tráfico de mulheres” (Shifting the Debate on the Traffic of Women) “Cadernos Pagu (Journal of the Centre for Gender Studies, UNICAMP, Brazil) Vol. 25,( 2005): 55-78. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0104-83332005000200003&script=sci_arttext&tlng=ES

“Prostitution and Sex Work Studies.” In Companion to Gender Studies, edited by Philomena Essed, Audrey Kobayashi, and David Theo Goldberg. Blackwell Publishers, 2004: 255-265.

“Free-lancers, Temporary Wives and Beachboys: Researching Sex Work in the Caribbean” Feminist Review No. 67 (Spring 2001): 39-63.

“Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade: Transnational Feminist Perspectives.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism Vol.1. no  3 (Spring 2001): 28-51.

Factors that Shape the Initiation of Early Sexual Activity Among Adolescent Boys and Girls:  A Study in Three Communities in Jamaica (with Leith Dunn). Report to UNICEF and UNFPA. University of the West Indies, Nov. 2001. http://www.unicef.org/evaldatabase/index_14463.html

“'Sandom's' and Other Exotic Women: Prostitution and Race in the Caribbean." In Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience ed. Manning Marable. Columbia University Press, 2000: 75-89.)

"Negotiating Cultures: A 'Dogla' Perspective." In  Matikor: The Politics of Identity for Indo-Caribbean Women ed. Roseanne Kanhai. University of the West Indies, School of Continuing Education, 1999: 103-113.

"Prostitution, Marginality and Empowerment: Caribbean Women in the Sex Trade." Beyond Law:  5.14 (March 1996): 69-84 http://ilsa.org.co:81/biblioteca/dwnlds/Bylw/Bylw14/Bylw14-04.pdf