Perversions in Anti-Trafficking

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-15407-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 494 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

This book examines anti-trafficking practices in which mechanisms of punishment may be framed as protection or rehabilitation, carceral measures may be packaged as humanitarianism, victims may be treated as offenders, and interventions may hurt more than they help.

The anti-trafficking industry seems to require a high tolerance for cognitive dissonance when harms produced by law enforcement and migration control are reframed as protective or preventive measures for persons who have been trafficked, sex workers, and migrants. In this collection, we hone in on a couple of processes that are central to anti-trafficking – perversion and contortion. By perversion, we refer to the process by which something comes to be framed as its inverse, for example, forms of help that produce harm, carcerality couched in the language of community and care, and empowerment initiatives that may feel extractive. By contortion, we refer to the process by which someone or something has to be reframed in order to fit within the categories defined by anti-trafficking stakeholders. We argue for a more rigorous interrogation of these ‘carceral illogics’ that are often referred to as contradictions, paradoxes, or tensions in anti-trafficking. In using the language of perversion and contortion, we hope to expand attention from (contradictory or unintended) harms to processes that evince thought, labour and manoeuvring. Our objectives are to understand how ‘bait and switches’ in anti-trafficking occur, and to explore how these perversions or contortions might be mitigated.

This book will be a useful resource for scholars, practitioners, social workers, and policymakers working at the intersections of anti-human trafficking, sex work studies, migration, criminal justice, and human rights.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ham, Julie

Singh, Rashmee

Raguparan, Menaka

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Prostitution und Sexindustrie: Soziale & Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Perversions and contortions as carceral illogics in anti-trafficking Section One: Punishing Victims 2. Charging survivors: U.S. prosecutions of sex trafficking victims with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking 3. The penalty of being poor in the anti-trafficking system 4. Not the ‘ideal victim’: The criminalization of im/migrant sex workers in anti-trafficking efforts 5. Contesting the unseen: Rethinking anti-trafficking programs to address carceral harms and center survivor-led solutions 6. The architecture of confinement: How institutional logics converge on shelter-based care for child trafficking survivors in Cambodia Section Two: Carceral Contortions 7. Back from the dead!: The reanimated strategies of Los Angeles’ public health approach to human trafficking 8. Perversions of safety in anti-trafficking initiatives: Los Angeles sex workers’ call for abolition 9. Prostitution as national threat: U.S. federal agencies leverage sex trafficking and security norms to target sex workers 10. Sex work and contagion: Unveiling the impact of 19th-century laws on sex worker experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic Section Three: Mechanisms of Perversion 11. The politics of spectacle and the mundane: How sex trafficking panics obscure the crisis of domestic violence 12. Normalizing ‘perversion’ in anti-trafficking: Moral principles and the making of the perverted mainstream 13. History & justice: Perversions in anti-trafficking’s visual culture of slavery 14. Panic, protection, and punishment: Moral panics as engines of anti-trafficking perversion Section Four: Contortions Through Courts and Bureaucracy 15. Human Trafficking Courts: Conflation, coercion, and carceral welfare 16. The good intentions trap: Adversarial and therapeutic failures in trafficking justice 17. Perverting vulnerability: Judicial discourse, carceral protectionism, and Canadian human trafficking law 18. Navigating bureaucracies: The administrative ‘disappearing’ of trafficking victims Section Five: Perversions in Border Control, Migration Policy and Surveillance 19. Calling for help?: The anti-migrant perversion of federal anti-trafficking outreach flyers 20. Interpretive disorientation: Considering the applicability of the anti-trafficking framework to migrant labor exploitation 21. Protection or precarity: Analyzing the Temporary Resident Permit for Victims of Trafficking in Persons (VTIP-TRP) and its impact on labor trafficking survivors 22. Amazon’s anti-trafficking exception: How anti-trafficking undermines demands to ban surveillance collaborations with law enforcement Section Six: Perversions in Social Movements, Survivor Leadership and Alternative Futures 23. Trojan Horse: The criminalization of migration in the decriminalization of labour 24. Assimilationist demands in the antiviolence field: Navigating gender identity, sexuality, & sex work experience as an advocate 25. Third-party facilitators and the demand for survivors’ stories 26. The illusion of belonging: Unmasking power and control in the anti-trafficking sector 27. Radical feminists and conservative Christians on sex work, surrogacy and gender identity: The new unholy alliance 28. Anti-trafficking as a perversion of care: Evading capture and building spaces of feminist safety

Über Autor(innen)

Julie Ham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Brock University. Her research is grounded in academic-community collaborations that speak to priorities identified by migrant and minority communities, and knowledge production by migrants through participatory and creative methodologies (https://www.mmmk.ca/).

Rashmee Singh is an Associate Professor of Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Her work examines the governance of domestic violence, the impact of anti-trafficking panics on criminal legal responses to sex work, penal welfarism, and anti-carceral feminist responses to gender based violence.

Menaka Raguparan is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her research explores women of colour’s experiences in the sex industry, human trafficking, and the criminal legal system, with current work examining policing and state court operations.