Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman : : Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and Its Victims.

• Superior document: Gender in a Global/Local World Series
• Author: Vijeyarasa, Ramona.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gardiner Barber, Pauline, Professor.; Marchand, Marianne H, Professor.; Parpart, Jane, Professor.
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2016.; Ã2015.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Gender in a Global/Local World Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (285 pages)

Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman is a go-to text for readers who seek a comprehensive overview of the meaning of 'human trafficking' and current debates and perspectives on the issue. It presents a more nuanced understanding of human trafficking and its victims by examining - and challenging - the conventional assumptions that sit at the heart of mainstream approaches to the topic. A pioneering study, the arguments made in this book are largely drawn from the author's fieldwork in Ukraine, Vietnam and Ghana. The author demonstrates to readers how a law enforcement and criminal justice-oriented approach to trafficking has developed at the expense of a migration and human rights perspective. She highlights the importance of viewing trafficking within a broad spectrum of migratory movement. The author contests the coerced, female victim archetype as stereotypical and challenges the reader to understand trafficking in an alternative manner, introducing the counterintuitive concept of the 'voluntary victim'. Overall, this text provides readers of migration and development, gender studies, women's rights and international law a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the concept of trafficking.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures, Maps and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Series Preface -- Part I: Setting the Scene: Trafficking Myths and Misconceptions in Context -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Trafficking and the Mainstream Trafficking Framework -- Human Trafficking: Concepts and Realities -- The Myths and Misconceptions Challenged in this Book -- Analysing Trafficking Through the Lens of Autonomy, Agency and Causality -- Structure of this Book -- The Way Forward -- Chapter 2 The Main Agendas and Those Behind Them -- Academic Discourse: Feminist Debates on Sex Work and Trafficking -- Government Agendas: Controlling Sex Work and Migration Using Anti-Trafficking Policies -- The Influence of the UN, Inter-Governmental and Non-Governmental Organisations and Donors -- The Rescue Industry -- The Media -- Victim Self-Imagery: The Good Woman, Innocent Victim and Inviolable Man -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Legislative Approaches to Trafficking: The Role of the Law in Challenging or Reinforcing Myths and Misconceptions -- The Trafficking Protocol and its Problematic Definition of Trafficking -- Other International and Regional Legal Instruments -- Regulating Trafficking, Sex Work and Migration at the National Level -- Conclusion -- Part II: Dispelling the Myths and Misconceptions -- Chapter 4 The Coerced Victim of Trafficking -- Dispelling the Coerced Victim Archetype: Kidnapping, Abduction and the Deception of Victims -- The 'Voluntary Victim': Refining our Understanding of Human Trafficking -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Uneducated Victim of Trafficking -- The Archetypal Uneducated Victim and its Origins -- Contesting the Uneducated Victim Archetype -- Does Education Impact Trafficking in Other Ways? -- Other Variables in the Education Systems -- Conclusion.

Chapter 6 The Poor Victim of Trafficking -- Defining Absolute Poverty's Relationship with Trafficking -- Relative Poverty and Human Trafficking -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The Female Victim of Trafficking -- 'Gender' Inequality and the Traffic of Women and Girls -- Human Trafficking and Male Victims -- The Gendered Nature of Exploitation -- The Sex of Traffickers -- The Gendered Nature of Stigma -- Conclusion -- Part III: An Alternative Approach to Trafficking -- Chapter 8 The Shortcomings of a Criminal Justice Focus -- The Criminal Underworld of Sex and Exploitation -- Elements of the Crime -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 The 'Voluntary' Victim, Unmet Expectations and Contractual and Labour Rights Redress -- Turning to Principles from Contract Law: Unmet Expectations, Deception and Redress -- Legitimate and Non-Legitimate Expectations -- Labour Laws: Exploitation and Regulating Conditions of Work -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Towards a More Inclusive, Victim-Centred Framework -- The Voluntary Victim of Trafficking -- A New Victim Profile -- Other Potential Drivers Beyond the Scope of this Book -- Rising Above Individual Agendas -- Final Remarks: Trafficking as Failed Migration -- Annex 1: Questionnaire -- Annex 2: Overview of data collected from Ukraine, Vietnam and Ghana -- Bibliography -- Legislation, Case Law, Resolutions and Policy Documents -- Government Reports and Policy Statements -- Sources from the United Nations System -- International Organisation and Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Sources -- Journals, Books and Other Sources -- News Articles and Opinion Pieces -- Index -- Series Page.