ISBN:
9780415521826
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (257 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Human Trafficking in Asia : Forcing Issues
DDC:
306.3/62
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
By analysing the complex issues surrounding internal and cross-border human trafficking in Asia, and asserting critical perspectives and methodologies, this book extends the range of sites for discussion and sectors in which human trafficking takes place.The book re-centres human trafficking as an area of legitimate academic inquiry in a region that is often considered as an epicentre for human trafficking: East and Southeast Asia. It thus offers an in-depth analysis and up-to-date knowledge on research methodologies and engagements, patterns and forms of human trafficking, constructively crit
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Human Trafficking in Asia; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Introduction: forcing issues; Part I Anti-trafficking reconsidered; 2 The good, the bad and the ugly: in the name of victim protection; 3 Trafficking versus smuggling: Malaysia's Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act; 4 Victims of human trafficking or perpetrators of fraudulent marriage? Foreign spouses engaging in the sex industry in Taiwan; 5 Globalising rehabilitative regimes: framing the moral economy of vocational training in after-trafficking work
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Methodological issues in researching human trafficking6 Virgin territory re-explored: ethnographic insight, public policy and the trade in minority women in Southeast Asia; 7 In search of the perfect method: reflections on knowing, seeing, measuring and estimating human trafficking; 8 Another side of the story: challenges in research with unidentified and unassisted trafficking victims; Part III Complicating human trafficking; 9 Trafficking at sea: the situation of enslaved fishermen in Southeast Asia
Description / Table of Contents:
10 People smuggling in Indonesia: dependency, exploitation and other vulnerabilitiesPart IV Moving forward; 11 Shifting public anti-trafficking discourses through arts and media; 12 The role of media-based interventions in combating human trafficking in Southeast Asia; 13 Balancing relations, broadening discourses? Shifting the terrain of local non-government organisation involvement in anti-trafficking knowledge production in Vietnam; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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