User:LHall19

My name is Lena Hall, and I am a Sophomore at Rice University. I am a Sociology major, with a minor in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities. My interests focus mainly on economic disparities among racial groups and genders, especially in developing regions. In Fall of 2014, I completed an introductory course in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities. As an assignment for that course, I rewrote the article American juvenile justice system. In the next few months, I would like to contribute more to articles in Wikipedia relating to social justice and poverty.

Current Work

I am currently planning to update and expand the article Sex tourism as part of a class project. This start-class article has been rated "high importance" under WikiProject Travel and Tourism, and I think it needs significant updates and expansion. I would like to first expand the article to include discussions on motivations for sex tourism, focusing on differing policies surrounding prostitution and social norms in sending and receiving countries. I would also include more information on how sex tourism operates, and the kind of revenue it generates in destination countries. Additionally, I plan to add sections to discuss social stigmas surrounding sexuality and prostitution, and how this motivates or influences sex tourism. I also would like to include a more thorough discussion of this issue's connection to human rights and capabilities. Finally, I plan to outline the effects of sex tourism on national economies and the resulting influence on policies. I will eliminate some of the less-developed sections of the existing article and incorporate the information elsewhere. Hopefully these changes will make this article more thorough, informative, and well-organized. Please visit the talk page of the Sex tourism article to see more details of my planned contribution, and comment with any recommendations or possible other changes you think I should make. I would appreciate feedback on how best to proceed with this article.