Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Alicia Peter's ethnography provides the most lucid analysis of the immensely contested operations of human trafficking response that I have ever read. It illuminates how cultural beliefs and values about gender, sexuality, and victimization have fractured the interpretation and implementation of the law in different sites." * Sealing Cheng, author of
On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea *
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Responding to Human Trafficking is an important contribution to the literature on human trafficking. Alicia W. Peters successfully takes us inside the maze of the anti-trafficking regime, illustrating conflicts in priorities, challenges in advocacy work, and the continued need to design a victim-centered system." * Rhacel Parrenas, University of Southern California *
"Alicia W. Peters illustrates the ways in which ideology is incorporated into U.S. anti-trafficking law. With unprecedented access to service providers working with victims of trafficking in New York City, federal officials, and a number of victims, Peters suggests how to utilize survivors' stories to frame future research and how to use their voices in the policy debates." * Elzbieta Gozdziak, Georgetown University *
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
PART I. TRAFFICKING ON THE BOOKS
Chapter 1. A Dichotomy Emerges
PART II. THINKING, ENVISIONING, AND INTERPRETING TRAFFICKING
Chapter 2. The Experts Make Sense of the Law
Chapter 3. "Things That Involve Sex Are Just Different"
Chapter 4. Defining Trafficking Through Survivor Experience
PART III. THE LAW IN ACTION
Chapter 5. Intersections on the Ground
Chapter 6. Moving the Antitrafficking Response Forward
APPENDICES
A. Data Archiving Requirements and Threats to Confidentiality
B. Interviewees Quoted in the Text
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
