Paved With Good Intentions?: Human Trafficking And The Anti-trafficking Movement In Singapore

Description

This book focuses on human trafficking and the anti-trafficking movement, particularly as it is expressed in Southeast Asia. The study is based on ethnographic research of the emerging anti-trafficking movement in Singapore, and in-depth interviews and observations with victims of human trafficking and others subject to labour exploitation in Singapore. Research in the book adds to the significant amount of work documenting human trafficking in Asia, by offering a critical academic perspective on the rise of the anti-trafficking movement. Readers will gain an understanding of how anti-trafficking operates as a new social movement and state practice, and how anti-trafficking often sits at odds with the experiences of trafficked and exploited persons themselves. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Sallie Yea)....Pages 1-30 Mobilising the Child Victim: The Emergence of a Trafficking Master Narrative (Sallie Yea)....Pages 31-57 Girls on Film: Framing Human Trafficking Through Film and the Cinema (Sallie Yea)....Pages 59-86 Elastic Victimhood: The State, NGOs, and Negotiating the Parameters of Anti-trafficking (Sallie Yea)....Pages 87-114 (In)visible Women and (Anti)-trafficking (Sallie Yea)....Pages 115-145 (Un)identified Men and Labour Exploitation (Sallie Yea)....Pages 147-180 Spaces of Deflection and Deportability Beyond Anti-trafficking (Sallie Yea)....Pages 181-207 Discretion and Obfuscation in Exclusions from Anti-trafficking (Sallie Yea)....Pages 209-231 Conclusion: Paved with Good Intentions? (Sallie Yea)....Pages 233-241 Back Matter ....Pages 243-247