Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice [Paperback]

The recognition of womens human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in the latest United Nations 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 women, but also the global anti-trafficking policy and the root causes for the undocumented migration and employment. Featuring case studies on eleven countries including the US, Iran, Denmark, Paris, Hong Kong, and south east Asia and offering perspectives from transnational migrant population, the contributors rearticulate the trafficking discourses away from the state control of immigration and the global policing of borders, and reassert the social justice and the needs, agency, and human rights of migrant and working communities.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, gender studies, human rights, migration, sociology and anthropology.

1. Introduction 2. The NGO-ification of the Anti-TraffickingMovement in the United StatesJennifer Lynne Musto3. Beyond TragedySholeh Shahrokhi4. From Thailand with LoveSine Plambech5. Beyond the Victim Leah Briones  6. Anti-Trafficking Campaign and Karaoke Bar Hostesses in ChinaTiantian Zheng  7. Invisible Agents, Hollow BodiesSusan Dewey8.Eslc