Constructing Human Trafficking - Evangelicals, Feminists, and an Unexpected Alliance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

Human trafficking has come to be seen as a growing threat, and transnational advocacy networks opposed to human trafficking have succeeded in establishing trafficking as a pressing political problem. The meaning of human trafficking, however, remains an object of significant-and heated-contestation. This project draws upon feminist and poststructuralist international relations theories to offer a genealogy of U.S. neo-abolitionism. The analysis examines activist campaigns, legislative and policy debates, and legislation surrounding human trafficking and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in order to argue that the dominant US framing of trafficking as prostitution and sex slavery is not as hegemonic as scholars and activists commonly argue. In fact, constructions of human trafficking have become more amenable to reconfiguration, paradoxically in large part because of Evangelical attempts to widen the frame. This is an empirically novel and theoretically rich account of an urgent transnational issue of concern to activists, voters and policymakers around the globe.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Human Rights Interventions
Release date:	August 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Jennifer K. Lobasz
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	210
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-91736-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-91736-6
Barcode:	9783319917368

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