Description
Book SynopsisSet in different national contexts (Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Laos, Norway, Thailand) and in different social science disciplines, the chapters of this volume aim at questioning anti-trafficking policies and their practical impact on sex work regulation.
Many actors, from media to researchers, from nonprofit organizations to law enforcement agencies, from experts to reality tourists, contribute to produce knowledge on trafficking and sexual exploitation and thus to institutionalize it as a category of thought and action; by naming and framing perpetrators and victims, they make trafficking come true as a public problem. The book pays particular attention to the way the international expertise produced by these different actors and institutions on sexual exploitation and sex work impacts local control practices, especially with regard to law enforcement. The fight against trafficking as it gets institutionalized and put into practice then appears as a way to reaffirm
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: Making Trafficking Come True: Counting, Expertising, and Classifying
1 How to Establish the Reality of Trafficking in Women? The Selective Disqualification of Sources by the Special Body of Experts of the League of Nations (1924–1927)
2 Sex Trafficking and “Reality Tourism” in Thailand: New Experts
3 From Social Experience to Cultural Expertise: the Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Identifying Sex Trafficking Victims in France
4 Negotiating the Territories of Anti-Trafficking Efforts: the “Unlikely Cooperation” Between Police Officers and Social Workers in Germany
5 “There’s No Place Like Home”: “Return Policies” for Human Trafficking Victims in Bulgaria
6 Assessing Damages for Sexual Exploitation: the Compensation of Trafficking Victims in France
PART II: For the Sake of the Victims: Criminalizing Sex Work, Gendering Public Order
7 French Abolitionism: From Eradicating Regulationism to Promoting Social Care
8 What Sex Workers Think About Victimhood, Violence, and Exploitation: Insights From a Collaborative Study Prioritizing Sex Workers’ Voices
9 Gender Violence and Violence Against Sex Workers: Irreconcilable Perspectives
10 Policing Sex Work, Producing Gender: Gendered Division of Labor and Management of Sexual Illegalisms
11 Pimps on Trial
PART III: Think Globally, Act Locally: Anti-Trafficking Policies, From Universal Humanitarian Discourse to National Border Controls
12 Migration and Security: The Danger of Anti-Trafficking Heritage in Brazil
13 Fighting Human Trafficking Away From a Human Rights Frame: the Effects of Anti-Trafficking Regimes in Brazil
14 Trafficking Prevention for Workforce Retention Categorizing “Women at Risk” in Laos
15 Red Lights for Prostitution: Policing the Purchase of Sex in Norway
16 Judging Sexual Exploitation: a “Cultural” Crime?
