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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785269003321

Titolo

Sex trafficking, human rights and social justice / / edited by Tiantian Zheng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-95274-8

1-282-78172-3

9786612781728

0-203-84906-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in human rights ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

ZhengTiantian

Disciplina

363.4/4

364.1534

Soggetti

Human trafficking

Prostitution

Human rights

Social justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The NGO-ification of the anti-trafficking movement in the United States: A case study of the coalition to abolish slavery and trafficking; 2 Beyond "tragedy": A cultural critique of sex trafficking of young Iranian women; 3 From Thailand with love: Transnational marriage migration in the global care economy; 4 Beyond the victim: Capabilities and livelihood in Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong; 5 Anti-trafficking campaign and the sex industry in urban China

6 Invisible agents, hollow bodies: Neoliberal notions of "sex trafficking" from Syracuse to Sarajevo7 Escaping statism: From the paradigm of trafficking to the migration trajectories of West African sex workers in Paris; 8 Representing sex trafficking in Southeast Asia?: The victim staged; 9 Legislating the trafficking and slavery of women and girls: The criminalization of marriage, tradition, and gender norms in French Colonial Cameroon, 1914-1945



10 Countering the trafficking paradigm: The role of family obligations, remittance, and investment strategies among migrant sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico11 Between trafficking discourses and sexual agency: Brazilian female sex workers in Spain; 12 So if you are not "Nastasha," who are you?: Revealing the other trafficked women and their uses?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 wo