Sex Slaves and Discourse Masters: The Construction of Trafficking

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The analysis in this book is controversial but crucial, an alternative to the current panic discourses around trafficking in women. -- About the Author Acknowledgements Acronyms Introduction: Positioning trafficking in women Box 1 • ‘Italy’s sex slaves’ Box 2 • ‘Human trafficking: charming girls and greedy merchants!’ Box 3 • ‘Filipinas end up as fun girls in South Korea’ Defining trafficking in women Myth and consent Contextualizing consent: the forced/voluntary dichotomy Abolitionism and regulationism reconfigured The Vienna negotiations concerning the 2000 UN Trafficking Protocol 1 White slavery and trafficking as political myth Myth and ideology Ideology and trafficking Ideology, truth and power True myths? Myth and its political effects 2 The construction of innocence and the spectre of chaos Narrative and truth The white slave (appearances and apparitions) Empire and race in the construction of white slavery Narrative, ideology and political effects 3 Metaphorical innocence: white slavery in America Metaphor and myth The American anti-white slavery campaign How white was white slavery? Immigration and white slavery Feminism and white slavery in the US Commercialization: ‘the rise of the pimp system’ Metaphor and myth redux 4 ‘Prevent, protect and punish’ Locating the myth Performing narrative Interrupting the innocent victim The Protocol on Trafficking in Persons: background The two sides of the Trafficking Protocol Moral panics and boundary crisis Suffering bodies, protection and ressentiment The trafficker The results of anti-trafficking campaigns Disappearing sex workers? 5 Now you see her, now you don’t: consent, sex workers and the Human Rights Caucus Delinking prostitution and trafficking Putting the lobby together Visible protest, invisible influence The disappearing prostitute and the definition of trafficking ‘Specially vulnerable’ What’s wrong with sexual exploitation? Consent to trafficking? The disappearing subject of trafficking (lose the myth, and who’s left?) 6 Towards a reinscription of myth Trafficking in women, myth and consent Why trafficking? Why now? Sex work, myth and reinscriptions The new subject of myth Notes Introduction 1 White slavery and trafficking as political myth 2 The construction of innocence and the spectre of chaos 3 Metaphorical innocence: white slavery in America 4 ‘Prevent, protect and punish’ 5 Now you see her, now you don’t: consent, sex workers and the Human Rights Caucus Primary sources Documents Relating to the Vienna Negotiations around the 2000 Trafficking Protocol Works cited Index