Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia and India

by Dewey,Susan

• ISBN13: 9781565492660
• ISBN10: 1565492668
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner

Summary

In Hollow Bodies, Susan Dewey travels to Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and India to follow the trade in women's bodies and efforts to stop it. What she finds is a counter-trafficking system at the mercy of funds from misguided international organizations and foreign governments. From counterproductive restrictions placed on NGOs by donors, to jaded employees and bribes given to prosecutors, Dewey highlights the structural flaws in place that allow, and sometimes even help, sex trafficking to continue. Based on research conducted with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Dewey speaks with a range of actors from bar workers in Bombay to Embassy employees in Armenia and senior officials at international organizations. She discovers how a global problem plays out differently on the local level and why millions of aid dollars make little difference in the lives of women who are forced or compelled from their homes into the global sex trade.

Author Biography

Susan Dewey is a cultural anthropologist and practitioner of Women's Studies at DePauw University. She has been the recipient of nationally competitive grants from the National Science Foundation and Fulbright-Hays and is the author of Making Miss India Miss World Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India.

Table of Contents

Preface

Sarajevo Roses: Why Feminist Questions are also Human Questions

Introduction to the Case Studies: Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and India

Important Questions and Clarifications

From "White Slavery" to National Security

Counter-trafficking Discourse and Idioms

International Efforts and Protocols

The Eastern European Bias

Anti-trafficking Organizations

Debates on Agency, Consent and Choice

IOM Efforts to Provide More Sensitive Images of Sex Trafficking

Armenia: Institutionalized Indifference, Reliance on Donor Aid, and Local Disempowerment

Family Violence as an Indicator of Risk

"In Soviet Times This Never Happened": The Politics of Nostalgia and Memory

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ngos, Donor Aid and the Establishment of Post-Conflict Civil Society

Gendering War and Its Consequences

State-Sponsored Rape on Trial

The Impacts of Post-war Donor Fatigue

The Roma: Sex Trafficking, Migration and Human Rights

Bosnia and the Politics of European Union Accession

India: Rethinking the Traffic in Women

The Power of Social Invisibility to Subjugate

Dancing Girls and Structural Adjustment

Social Class and "Moral Danger"

Banking on Resiliency: IOM India and the ERTV Success Story

Feminist Ethnographic Research in Times Of Crisis

Invisible Agents, Hollow Bodies

When Injustice Becomes Business as Usual

Institutional Power, Individual Lives, and the Politics of Feminist Research

Postscript

References

List of Abbreviations

About the Author

Index

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