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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book focuses on volatile processes at the South African-Zimbabwean border that arise from practices of migration and income generating activities. The processes are influenced by neoliberal developments and controversial discourses on migration, commercial sexual services, and human trafficking. In this unstable environment, different actors continuously negotiate, trying to achieve stable positions. By addressing issues related to migration and income generating activities, they maneuver between legal rules and their own moral values and interests. In their attempt to classify incidents in the border context that are unclear to them, actors’ explanations are partly based on the concept of transnational human trafficking. Thereby, they transfer the impenetrability discursively associated with this concept to what they see as obscure cross-border migration, disconcerting sexual services, and other alienating economic activities. Alternatively, actors understand undocumented cross-border migration, commercial sexual services, and other illegalised income-generating activities as common everyday practices at the border and also assume that human trafficking does not play an important role there.
Authors and Affiliations
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Anna S. Hüncke is a research associate at the Research Institute for Sustainability at Helmholtz Centre Potsdam. There she deals with questions of socio-ecological transformation and public sector innovation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migration and Making an Income in the Context of ‘Human Trafficking’
Book Subtitle: Imponderable Experiences and Sense-Making at a South African Border
Authors: Anna S. Hüncke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41670-6
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Social Science and Law (German Language)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-41669-0Published: 10 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-41670-6Published: 09 June 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Human Rights