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Australian National University
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Social and Cultural Anthropology | Anthropology | Anthropology of Development
Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare | International Aid and Development |
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-11-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-10-2018
DOI: 10.1111/DECH.12459
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-09-2021
Publisher: Pacific Affairs
Date: 03-2012
DOI: 10.5509/2012851117
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-05-2011
Publisher: Alliance Against Traffic in Women Foundation
Date: 09-2013
Abstract: It is with great honour that I introduce the second issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review (ATR). The first issue received an overwhelming response and has placed the journal at the forefront of rigorous analysis and debate relating to human trafficking and human rights. It raised the topic of accountability in anti-trafficking. This issue hopes to further strengthen the ATR’s position as a global, reputable journal on human trafficking.Strengthening the quality of research, analysis, and reflexivity in the trafficking sector is much needed, and I echo Anne Gallagher’s observation as guest editor of the first issue that standards in anti-trafficking research tend to be less rigorous than in other fields of study. My aim as a guest editor is to contribute to addressing this shortfall by bringing together a set of erse and insightful articles focussing on the nexus of borders and human rights. It is also my hope that this issue will work towards narrowing the ide between practitioners and academics in anti-trafficking. This is reflected in the varied range of contributors. The last few years have witnessed a significant increase in publishing relating to human trafficking worldwide. However, there is limited measured debate and appraisal of this literature within the anti-trafficking sector. For this reason we have decided to include a book review as a way of highlighting recent major publications.The question of borders, migration control, trafficking and human rights raise contested and controversial questions. The editorial team has attempted to include different perspectives, reflected in the debate section in particular. Needless to say, all papers have been subject to double blind peer review.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2011
Publisher: Department of Anthropology of Economic Experimentation, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.48509/MOLAB.6488
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-06-2013
Abstract: How can an elusive phenomenon such as human trafficking be studied anthropologically? Recent anthropological research has problematized and destabilized bound territory and sitedness. UN agencies, governments, and NGOs attempt to combat trafficking in persons, but find it hard to pinpoint traffickers and their victims for programmatic purposes. Similar to anthropology’s relativization of site, displaced locality is central to the anti-trafficking discourse. In this essay, I reflect upon my own research on the social worlds of trafficking and anti-trafficking along the Lao-Thai border and show how a ‘tandem ethnography’ allows a methodological oscillation between the policy domain of anti-trafficking and the social world of mobility, sex commerce and the recruitment within it. Rather than giving away the importance of physical locality, I argue for the importance of strategic positioning within an ethnography of the mobile. As such, the old anthropological principle of comparisons must be brought into the field.
Publisher: ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Date: 30-07-2019
DOI: 10.1355/SJ34-2F
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-12-2018
Publisher: Alliance Against Traffic in Women Foundation
Date: 09-2013
Abstract: Over the last several decades, globalisation and a growing concern over security issues, including transnational crime and terrorism, has shaped migration policies and the priorities of states. As migration rose to the top of many government agendas, a rapid tightening and regularisation of borders ensued in an attempt to keep undesirable, high-risk migrants out of potential destination countries. Concomitantly, transnational crimes, such as trafficking in persons and the smuggling of migrants, have been increasingly defined as border security problems. This article examines the extent to which border control is fundamental to anti-trafficking and anti-smuggling interventions, situating the debate within the wider nexus of globalisation and the securitisation of migration. Based upon their work with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Centre for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the authors take the standpoint that given it is the sovereign right of each state to control its border and regulate migration, the human rights of migrants must be considered within this realpolitik. Clearly, though, this claim is highly political and contentious. In the article, we explore some of the tensions and contradictions that have emerged in this debate, and then develop an argument to suggest that it is possible for states to combine managed migration and strict border controls with the protection of human rights in the current context of globalisation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-12-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-06-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-07-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-01-2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-07-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2016
DOI: 10.1111/IMRE.12251
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-09-2010
DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-7660.2010.01665.X
Abstract: Over the past few years some governments and development organizations have increasingly articulated cross-border mobility as "trafficking in persons". The notion of a market where traffickers prey on the "supply" of migrants that flows across international borders to meet the "demand" for labour has become a central trope among anti-trafficking development organizations. This article problematizes such economism by drawing attention to the oscillating cross-border migration of Lao sex workers within a border zone between Laos and Thailand. It illuminates the incongruity between the recruitment of women into the sex industry along the Lao-Thai border and the market models that are employed by the anti-trafficking sector. It discusses the ways in which these cross-border markets are conceived in a context where aid programming is taking on an increasingly important role in the politics of borders. The author concludes that allusions to ideal forms of knowledge (in the guise of classic economic theory) and an emphasis on borders become necessary for anti-trafficking programmes in order to make their object of intervention legible as well as providing post-hoc rationalizations for their continuing operation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2010
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-07-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-04-2012
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-07-2021
Publisher: Department of Anthropology of Economic Experimentation, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.48509/MOLAB.4477
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-07-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-07-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-07-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-07-2021
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Date: 10-09-2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 04-2018
DOI: 10.1086/697199
Start Date: 04-2016
End Date: 12-2021
Amount: $195,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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