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Challenging the Human Trafficking Narrative - Victims, Villains, and Heroes (Paperback)
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Challenging the Human Trafficking Narrative - Victims, Villains, and Heroes (Paperback)
Series: Victims, Culture and Society
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What is the moral of the human trafficking story, and how can the
narrative be shaped and evolved? Stories of human trafficking are
prolific in the public domain, proving immensely powerful in
guiding our understandings of trafficking, and offering something
tangible on which to base policy and action. Yet these stories also
misrepresent the problem, establishing a dominant narrative that
stifles other stories and fails to capture the complexity of human
trafficking. This book deconstructs the human trafficking narrative
in public discourse, examining the victims, villains, and heroes of
trafficking stories. Sex slaves, exploited workers, mobsters, pimps
and johns, consumers, governments, and anti-trafficking activists
are all characters in the story, serving to illustrate who is to
blame for the problem of trafficking, and how that problem might be
solved. Erin O'Brien argues that a constrained narrative of ideal
victims, foreign villains, and western heroes dominates the
discourse, underpinned by cultural assumptions about gender and
ethnicity, and wider narratives of border security, consumerism,
and western exceptionalism. Drawing on depictions of trafficking in
entertainment and news media, awareness campaigns, and government
reports in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of
America, this book will be of interest to criminologists, political
scientists, sociologists, and those engaged with human rights
activism and the politics of international justice
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