From Trafficking to Terror Constructing a Global Social Problem [Paperback]

A panic surrounds human trafficking and terrorism. The socially constructed 'war on terror and war on trafficking are linked through discourses that not only combine the two, but help promote an anti-Muslim sentiment. Using ethnographic data and stories, From Trafficking to Terrorpresents the need to challenge the trafficking and terror paradigm, and rethink approaches to the large scale challenges these discourses have created. This book is ideal for courses on gender, labor, migration, human rights and globalization.

Prologue: Producing Panic, Pleading for Power / Chapter 1: Trafficking Terror, Terrorizing Trafficking / Chapter 2: Colliding Wars / Chapter 3: Interrogating the Illicit / Chapter 4: Living the Wars on Terror and Trafficking / Chapter 5: Conclusion  Towards a New Paradigm

Pardis Mahdavi,PhD is associate professor of anthropology at Pomona College. Her research interests include gendered labor, migration, sexuality, human rights, youth culture, transnational feminism and public health in the context of changing global and political structures. Her first book, Passionate Uprisings: Irans Sexual Revolution was published with Stanford University Press in 2008, and her second book, Gridlock: Labor, Migration and Human Trafficking in Dubai, also Stanford University Press,is now available.

Pardis teaches courses on Medical Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Ethnographic Methods and has designed new courses entitled Sexual Politics of the Middle East and Love, Labor and the Law . She has published in the Journal of Middle East Womens Studies, Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, Culture, Health and Sexuality, Social Identities, Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, Anthropology News, and the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World Review. She haslÓ$