ISBN:
9781137318701
,
1137318708
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 232 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Palgrave connect. Social sciences
Series Statement:
Critical criminological perspectives
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. O'Brien, Erin E., 1981 - The politics of sex trafficking
DDC:
364.153
Keywords:
Human trafficking Australia
;
Human trafficking United States
;
USA
;
Menschenhandel
;
Bekämpfung
;
Australien
;
Menschenhandel
;
Bekämpfung
Abstract:
List of abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. The Politics of Sex Trafficking 2. Perspectives and Players 3. Stories of Trafficking 4. Measuring Trafficking 5. Defining Trafficking 6. Causes of Trafficking 7. Silencing Dissent 8. A Moral Geography References Index
Abstract:
This book offers a unique insight into the moral politics behind human trafficking policy in Australia and the USA, including rare interviews with key political actors, and a critical account of Congressional and Parliamentary hearings, This book offers a unique insight into the moral politics behind the making of human trafficking policy in Australia and the United States of America. As governments around the world rush to meet their international obligations to combat human trafficking, a heated debate has emerged over the rights, wrongs, and harms of prostitution, and its relationship to sex trafficking. The Politics of Sex Trafficking identifies and challenges intrinsic notions of moral harm that have pervaded trafficking discourse and resulted in a distinctly anti-prostitution agenda in trafficking policy in recent decades. Including rare interviews with key political actors, this book charts the competing perspectives of feminist, faith-based, and sex-worker activists, and their efforts to influence policy-makers. This critical account of the creation of anti-trafficking policy challenges the sex trafficking narrative dominant in US Congressional and Australian Parliamentary hearings, and demonstrates the power of a moral politics in shaping policy. This book will appeal to academics across the fields of criminology, criminal justice, law, human rights and gender studies, as well as policy-makers
Abstract:
"This book is refreshing in its attempt to think through issues of harm, morality, prostitution and trafficking but to do so with a firm focus on politics and policies and in a way that is grounded in a range of different empirical data. For this reader, the two stand out strengths of the book are the skilful handling of what is now a very large literature on the politics of prostitution and the way this is integrated within the actual analysis. The book raises some important questions about how 'the harms' of prostitution and sex trafficking are constituted by the way it links narrative analysis of sex trafficking with the politics of measuring 'the problem' and the political solution enacted. Accessible and thought-provoking, this book has something in it for everyone." - Jo Phoenix, University of Durham, UK "By critically evaluating the dominant anti-trafficking paradigm and prevailing policies based on it, The Politics of Sex Trafficking shows how ideological interests and unproven claims about the 'intrinsic' harms of prostitution have been fused with sex trafficking and have shaped public policies. O'Brien, Hayes and Carpenter present an alternative perspective-one that centers on coercion and deception in the migration process and labor arena instead of the practice of sexual commerce itself-as a superior framework for policy makers interested in combating genuine cases of abuse. The book is a major contribution to our understanding of the debate surrounding human trafficking." - Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, USA
Abstract:
Electronic book text. - Epublication based on: 9781137003386
DOI:
10.1057/9781137318701
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