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The media and NGOs have raised awareness of sex trafficking in recent years, but does it serve the interests of migrant sex workers to suggest they have been trafficked, or does it collude in their criminalisation and deportation? Should our priority...
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In a time where ideas on prostitution, migration and trafficking are so overtly reductionistic and ideological, Laura Agustín's blog Border thinking on migration, culture, economy, sex and trafficking is a helpful source of complex and contextualising...
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Promised Land 2004 Amos Gitaï A night in the Sinai desert. A group of men and women keep warm around a camp fire under the moonlight. The women come from Eastern Europe . The men, who normally walk their herds in the area, are Bedouins. Tomorrow, they...
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I will consider the most challenging critiques to anti-trafficking interventions, which, not surprisingly, come in an organised form precisely from those who are normally excluded from the debate: sex workers rights’ groups. This dissent is based on two...
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Our work for the last three years has never explicitly worked on the issue of human traffic or esclavage moderne. It has always been focused on the experience of migrant women, leaving their countries to work in other countries. But I can assure that...
Lire la suiteIn many cultures, irrespective of continent, modernization meant that formal institutions of slavery metamorphosed into quasi-legal slaveries, informal slaveries, caste servitude, neo-feudal seigneurial arrangements, mass public penal servitude (labor...
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“All nations that are resolute in the fight to end human trafficking have a partner in the United States...And together we will bring forth a world of fuller hope, a world where people enjoy the full blessings of their God-given liberty.” Secretary Condoleezza...
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Lately, I am getting more and more confused about the concept of human traffic as applied to women migrating to work. What is the difference between human traffic and smuggling? What is the difference between human traffic and abusive work conditions...
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