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for readily responding to their requests for information; the Global Alliance against Traffic in Women for sharing its experiences of interviewing trafficked persons; and Garlum Lau for her research assistance. The research was conducted with the assistance of a Small Project Grant from the University Grants Council, University of Hong Kong. 1 In this article, references to "mainland China" are to the People's Republic of China [PRC], excluding the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong and the Special Administrative Region of Macau. References to "mainland Chinese people" are to people resident in mainland China. This article draws upon in-depth interviews with women from mainland China who were incarcerated in Hong Kong for offences related to sex work. The interview pool included women who had worked under thirdparty management in Hong Kong, a group not previously studied. 3 As well as providing important information on the experiences of migrant sex workers generally, the interviews presented an invaluable opportunity to examine whether any of the interviewees had been trafficked into Hong Kong, expanding on earlier studies that could not access trafficked women. 4 Based on their accounts, 12 of the 58 women interviewed for this study would qualify as trafficking victims under our interpretation of the modem international definition of the term, contained in the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women 2 See discussion at pp. 60-63 below. The terms "victims of trafficking" or "trafficking victims" are adopted in this paper for consistency with the Trafficking Protocol, although the authors recognize that the term "trafficked persons" is preferred by advocates of the "pro-sex work" position (see discussion on p. 46 below). 3 Whilst there is a growing body of research on the experiences of independent migrant sex workers in Hong Kong, interviewing an incarcerated population enabled us also to access women who had worked under third-party management, a group that is normally not accessible to researchers. On the experiences of independent migrant sex workers, see Veronica Pearson, "Business & Pleasure: Aspects of the

A former British colony, Hong Kong was reunited with the People's Republic of China in 1997 under the 'one country two systems' model. The Hong Kong Basic Law contains detailed provisions for academic freedom, ensuring that local academics enjoy far greater freedom than their counterparts in mainland China. Hong Kong academics and the broader community have also publicly supported academic freedom when they perceived it to be under threat. The authors argue, however, that the recent restructuring of Hong Kong's universities may ultimately pose a greater threat than any explicit interference from the local or national governments.

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Since Hong Kong's return to the People's Republic of China (PRC) there has been a significant rise in the number of Chinese visitors to Hong Kong, including women crossing the border to engage in sex work. Sex work itself is not a crime in Hong Kong, but related activities, like soliciting, are prohibited. Sex work is treated as work for immigration purposes, and visitors who engage in work without an employment visa are breaching their conditions of stay. More than 10,000 mainland Chinese women have been arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced in recent years, causing the correctional population to expand beyond capacity. The authors examine the experiences of 58 incarcerated women in their encounters with the Hong Kong criminal justice system and find that women are processed in a highly routinized bureaucratic manner. They consider the purpose served by the largely bureaucratic form of justice that has emerged in response to migrant sex workers in Hong Kong.