Full Description
Global efforts to combat human trafficking are ubiquitous and reference particular ideas about unfreedoms, suffering, and rescue. The discourse has, however, a distinct racialized legacy that is lodged specifically in fears about "white slavery," women in prostitution and migration, and the defilement of white womanhood by the criminal and racialized Other. White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking centers the legacies of race and racism in contemporary anti-trafficking work and examines them in greater detail.
A number of recent arguments have suggested that race and racism are not only visible, but vital, to the success of contemporary anti- trafficking discourses and movements. The contributors offer recent scholarship grounded in critical anti- racist perspectives that reveal the historical and contemporary racial working of anti- trafficking discourses and practices globally—and how these intersect with gender, citizenship, sexuality, caste and class formations, and the global political economy.
Contents
Introduction
Rethinking the Field from Anti-Racist and Decolonial Perspectives
Kamala Kempadoo and Elena Shih
White Supremacy and Imperialism in Anti-Trafficking
Anti-Trafficking and Anti-smuggling Campaigns in West Africa as New Racialised Migration Deterrence Efforts
Sam Okyere and Peter Olayiwola
Trafficking, Terror and their Tropes
Pardis Mahdavi
The Anti-Trafficking Apparatus has a Racial Justice Problem
Lyndsey Beutin
Exploring the Role of Race and Racial Difference in the Legislative Intent of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
Arifa Raza
Global White Supremacy and Anti-Trafficking: Race, Racism, and the Politics of Human Trafficking
Elya Durisin
To Trip the White Fantastic: The Road from White Supremacy to Sex Trafficking Safaris
Gregory Mitchell
Colonialism and Racialization in Anti-Trafficking
Whore's Passport: Racialism, National Identity and the Trafficking of Brazilian Women
Thaddeus Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva
Anti-Trafficking and Settler-Colonial Discourses of Protection: The Coloniality of Racialized Interventions
Julie Kaye
The Jaula and Racialization of the Amazon: Reflections on Racism and Geopolitics in the Struggle Against Human Trafficking in Brazil
José Miguel Nieto Olivar and Flávia Melo
Constructing Victims and Criminals Through the Racial Figure of 'The Gypsy'
Marlene Spanger
"Is It Because I'm Not Young and White with Blue Eyes?": Canadian Police Response to Sex Workers of Color's Experiences of Exploitation and Trafficking
Menaka Raguparan
Trafficking Indianness by Legislating Settler Sexuality Logics
April Petillo
Imperial Anti-Trafficking: Producing Racialized Knowledge Regimes over the Longue Durée
Mishal Khan
Migrant and Sex Worker Resistance to Anti-Trafficking
Resistance of Butterfly: Mobilization of Asian Migrant Sex Workers Against Sexism and Racism in Canadian Anti-Trafficking Measures
Elene Lam, Jaden Hsin-Yun Peng and Coly Chau
The Aesthetic of Migrant Sex Work: Creation of White Identity and Perceived Moral Superiority
Nada DeCat
Sex Work in Jamaica: Trafficking, Modern Slavery and Slavery's Afterlives
Julia O'Connell Davidson and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor
Migrant Domestic Workers, Asylum-Seekers and Premonitions of Anti-Trafficking in Hong Kong
Julie Ham, Iulia Gheorghiu and Eni Lestari
