Trafficking and Sex Work: Gender, Race and Public Order
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| Management number | 201828829 | Release Date | 2025/10/08 | List Price | $21.54 | Model Number | 201828829 | ||
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This book examines the impact of anti-trafficking policies on sex work regulation in different national contexts, highlighting the ways in which international expertise produced by various actors and institutions shapes local control practices. It emphasizes the gendered and racialized nature of the fight against trafficking and its implications for public order.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 282 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This comprehensive volume explores the complex dynamics of anti-trafficking policies and their practical implications for sex work regulation across diverse national contexts and social science disciplines. Spanning Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Laos, Norway, and Thailand, the chapters delve into the multifaceted effects of these policies on the regulation of sex work. A wide range of actors, including media, researchers, nonprofit organizations, law enforcement agencies, experts, and reality tourists, contribute to the production of knowledge on trafficking and sexual exploitation, thereby institutionalizing it as a category of thought and action. By naming and framing perpetrators and victims, these actors shape trafficking as a public problem, drawing attention to its societal significance.
The book specifically focuses on the ways in which international expertise generated by these various actors and institutions impacts local control practices, particularly in law enforcement. The fight against trafficking, as it becomes institutionalized and implemented, emerges as a means to reinforce a gendered and racialized public order.
Through analytical bridges built across different national contexts and grounded in contextualized fieldwork in multiple countries, this book offers valuable insights for academics, practitioners, and activists engaged in sex and gender issues, as well as migration policies. It also resonates with a broader literature on the construction of public problems in sociology and political science.
Weight: 544g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032037851
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