@article{ref1,
title="The modern-day white (wo)man's burden: trends in anti-trafficking and anti-slavery campaigns",
journal="Journal of human trafficking",
year="2015",
author="Kempadoo, Kamala",
volume="1",
number="1",
pages="8-20",
abstract="In the early 1990s, the debate on human trafficking was restricted to a handful of feminists and revolved around establishing &quot;the trafficking of women&quot; as a case of labor migration or one of &quot;female sexual slavery.&quot; Two decades later, the debate is more complicated and widespread, yet within the proliferation of attention, a convergence among some of the most vocal and visible campaigns is discernible. This article takes up three prominent campaigns that dominate contemporary debates internationally--modern anti-slavery, abolitionist feminism, and celebrity humanitarianism--and considers the politics that emerge at the points of their convergence. It is argued that rather than getting to &quot;the bottom of things,&quot; as Emma Goldman urged over a century ago in relation to the &quot;traffic of women,&quot; a 21st-century version of the &quot;white man's burden&quot; is apparent, supported by contemporary western, neoliberal interests that maintain boundaries between the haves and the have-nots, while bolstering an image of a compassionate, benevolent West. The article points toward an alternate framework, one that is lodged in a commitment to social and economic justice, decolonization, a redistribution of wealth, and respect for subaltern experience and knowledge.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2332-2705",
doi="10.1080/23322705.2015.1006120",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2015.1006120"
}