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Author(s): | Clemente, M. |
Date: | 2022 |
Title: | The counter‐trafficking apparatus in action: who benefits from it? |
Journal title: | Dialectical Anthropology |
Volume: | 46 |
Number: | 3 |
Pages: | 267 - 289 |
Reference: | Clemente, M. (2022). The counter-trafficking apparatus in action: who benefits from it?. Dialectical Anthropology, 46(3), 267-289. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-022-09655-8 |
ISSN: | 0304-4092 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.1007/s10624-022-09655-8 |
Keywords: | Critical trafficking studies Human trafficking Portugal Prostitution Protection Reintegration |
Abstract: | Based on long-term ethnographic research, including documentary research, quali- tative interviews and observations made at a Portuguese shelter for “sex trafficked women,” this paper explores the counter-trafficking apparatus questioning who ben- efits from it. The discussion explores the contrasts between an institutional commit- ment to constructing this apparatus and the actuality of procedural efforts purporting to support “trafficking victims.” I argue that the higher goal of building a counter- trafficking apparatus — in itself a political objective — limits the rights of “vic- tims,” making processes that claim to be part of their protection de facto neo-liberal anti-political exercises in reenforcing bureaucratic state power. |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | CIES-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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