Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Language: English
Pages: 264
ISBN: 1138874221
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The recognition of women’s human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in the latest United Nation’s definition of trafficking.
This volume explores the life experiences, agency, and human rights of trafficked women in order to shed light on the complicated processes in which anti-trafficking, human rights and social justice are intersected. In these articles, the authors critically analyze not only the conflation of trafficking with sex work in international and national discourses and its effects on migrant women, but also the global anti-trafficking policy and the root causes for the undocumented migration and employment. Featuring case studies on eleven countries including the US, Iran, Denmark, Paris, Hong Kong, and south east Asia and offering perspectives from transnational migrant population, the contributors rearticulate the trafficking discourses away from the state control of immigration and the global policing of borders, and reassert the social justice and the needs, agency, and human rights of migrant and working communities.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, gender studies, human rights, migration, sociology and anthropology.
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countries of origin are not a new phenomenon, but a phenomenon that is growing. Studies of migrant cash remittances have, however, focused primarily on remittances from rich to poor countries. Luis Eduardo Guarniza suggests that this approach is a simplification, as it does not take account of the macro-economic effects of a transnational migrant economy, thus underestimating the migrant influence on the global economy (2003: 667). Structural limitations arise from phenomena that impact the
send money home, she can also help more girls to come who can then also send money home. The lower practical costs of migrating due to an active network in Denmark increase the number of women who can and choose to leave. Thus it can be argued that migration networks increase the number of migrants in a cumulative process (Light 1993: 27; Massey 1988). The women and their families in Thailand see these marriages as an opportunity to consolidate what Schaeffer-Grabiel calls a “transborder
to bring my sister, 5,000 Euros. Proxenetes, they add the money. They want to profit. Even though they say 30,000, you pay. Any money they say, you are going to pay.” The need for intermediaries and brokers is created by the impossibility for legal emigration in the first place. Whether migration broker and mediator for work are connected matters as much as does the clarity about respective financial obligations. Lilianne considers 5,000 Euros for her sister a fair deal. She would no longer agree
organizations. The “politics of pity” Luc Boltanski (1993: 15) describes how Western households watch calamities like wars, natural disasters or epidemics every evening on TV news. He opposes two types of viewers’ reactions: compassion and a “politics of pity.” Compassion flees generalization and folds over individual human beings. Little emotional and rooted in silence, it leads to practical actions rather than words – what concrete action can I do now to relieve this person’s pain? The
