Book Reviews 389 as the most promising. The latter, Benzecry argues, works well enough for mere prefer- ences, but is found wanting when it comes to more intense engagements. But what of violent dislikes, repulsions equal in strength to the attachments identified here? As tempting as it might be to compare opera fanatics to other varieties of connoisseurs, we might do better to begin by exploring other varieties of passion. Rutvica Andrijasevec Migration, Agency and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010, £50.00 hbk (ISBN-13: 9780230237407), 184 pp. Reviewed by: Suzan Walters, SUNY Stony Brook, USA In a time when we are bombarded by the media offering stories and images of sex traf- ficking, this book provides an alternative view that is quite welcome. Rutvica Andrijasevec looks at sex migration in a non-moralizing fashion. Andrijasevec listens to the women she interviews without judgment and what emerges is each woman’s agency. This is very different to the news specials we see or popular Hollywood films like Taken, where a young woman is captured, drugged, and then sold into prostitution. The women we meet in this book are not forced or tricked, nor are they kidnapped; theirs are stories of choice. Women chose to migrate to the sex industry in Italy for better job opportunities, inde- pendence from their families, hopes of finding a romantic partner, and to escape poverty. All of these highlight the individual desires and subjectivities of the migrant women. Migration, Agency and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking successfully acknowledges and analyzes the multifaceted issues of sex trafficking and sex migration. Anjrijasevec takes a set of complex issues and avoids oversimplifying them. Using feminist standpoint the- ory for the basis of her analysis, she gives the migrant women subjectivity. Andrijasevec’s findings are based on interviews with Eastern European women who are not EU citizens. The women migrated to Italy using third parties to arrange their migration and began working in third party controlled prostitution once they arrived. The women’s ages ranged from 18 to 25. While accounts from 30 migrant women were gath- ered, only 15 unstructured in-depth interviews were conducted. The sample for her research is unfortunately small, but the data collected are rich. Beginning with explaining how restrictive immigration regulations in the EU make it difficult for non-EU citizens to migrate, Andrijasevec paints a picture of constraint. The EU policies did not prevent the women from migrating to Italy, but they did alter the ways that they could get there. The migrant women relied heavily on third parties to cross borders, which created experiences of confinement and exploitation because they were at the mercy of the third parties. In addition, Andrijasevec points to the trafficking discourse as a contributing factor to the exploitation of migrant women. Trafficking implies force and coercion but the accounts of the women in this study do not. Most of the women wanted to migrate and sought out third parties to assist them, fully aware of the sex work that they would par- ticipate in. Andrijasevec’s research proposes that there is no significant difference