Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights

by Kempadoo,Kamala

• ISBN13: 9781594510977
• ISBN10: 1594510970
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Trafficking and prostitution are widely believed to be synonymous, and to be leading international crimes. This collection argues against such sensationalism and advances carefully considered and grounded alternatives for understanding transnational migrations, forced labor, sex work, and livelihood strategies under new forms of globalization. From their long-term engagements as anti-trafficking advocates, the authors unpack the contemporary international debate on trafficking. They maintain that rather than a new 'white slave trade,' we are witnessing today, more broadly, an increase in the violation of the rights of freedom of movement, decent employment, and social and economic security. Critical examinations of state anti-trafficking interventions, including the US-led War on Trafficking, also reveal links to a broader attack on undocumented migrants, tribal and aboriginal peoples, poor women, men and children, and sex workers. The book sheds new light on everyday circumstances, popular discourses, and strategies for survival under twenty-first century economic and political conditions, with a focus on Asia, but with lessons globally.

Table of Contents

Introduction
From Moral Panic to Global Justice: Changing Perspectives on Trafficking	vii
Kamala Kempadoo
Part I Shifting Paradigms: Globalization, Labor Migration, and Human Rights
1 Unpacking the Trafficking Discourse	3	(22)
Jyoti Sanghera
2 Cross-border Movements and the Law: Renegotiating the Boundaries of Difference	25	(18)
Ratna Kapur
3 Miles Away: The Trouble with Prevention in the Greater Mekong Sub-region	43	(22)
Phil Marshall and Susu Thatun
4 Reflections by an Anti-trafficking Activist	65	(18)
Lin Chew
Part II The "Problem" of Prostitution
5 From Anti-trafficking to Social Discipline; Or, the Changing Role of "Women's" NGOs in Taiwan	83	(24)
Josephine Ho
6 Trafficking in Lives: How Ideology Shapes Policy	107	(20)
Melissa Ditmore
7 The Myth of Nepal-to-India Sex Trafficking: Its Creation, Its Maintenance, and Its Influence on Anti-trafficking Interventions	127	(22)
John Frederick
8 Sex Workers' Rights Organizations and Anti-trafficking Campaigns	149	(10)
Edited by Kamala Kempadoo
Part III Reports from the Field: Participation, Research and Action
9 Migration, Trafficking, and Sites of Work: Rights and Vulnerabilities	159	(16)
Jagori
10 Feminist Participatory Action Research in the Mekong Region	175	(24)
Jan Boontinand, for the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
11 Using a Dynamic, Interactive, and Participatory Process to Develop and Redefine the Human Trafficking Paradigm in Bangladesh	199	(12)
Aftab Ahmed
12 Trafficked Persons or Economic Migrants? Bangladeshis in India	211	(18)
Natasha Ahmad
Index	229	(16)
About the Editor and Contributors	245