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Citation |
Shah SP. Sex Res. Social Policy 2008; 5(4): 19-30. |
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(Copyright © 2008, National Sexuality Resource Center) |
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Abstract |
Tracing the genealogy of U.S. foreign policy interests in trafficking through the first major contemporary trafficking case in the United States, the author shows that historical concerns about protecting U.S. borders form a set of principles criminalizing migrants and argues that these principles are being exported through U.S. anti-trafficking work abroad. Moving from the moment in the 1990's when a consolidated anti-trafficking agenda was being determined in the United States, the author discusses the ways in which this agenda is now potentially migrating to South Asia and, in particular, to India--albeit with some major tensions already in play. The author argues that states' anxieties about migration are themselves migrating, such that states in different regions are aiming to coordinate their responses to increased economic migration everywhere, and shows that anxieties about preventing sex work gain purchase in an international context in which migration and decriminalized borders are increasingly suspect. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). (journal abstract) |