How to Use a Trafficked Woman: The Alliance between Political and Criminal Trafficking Organisations
- Document number
- 1743
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- How to Use a Trafficked Woman: The Alliance between Political and Criminal Trafficking Organisations
- Author/publisher
- John Davies, Benjamin Davies
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis, Training Material/Resources,
- Keywords
- Demand, Human trafficking, Law enforcement, Criminal justice,
- Summary
- The principal argument of this paper is that migrant women with secure mobility rights and supportive social networks can avoid or mitigate many trafficking harms. However the paper contends that some actors have conspired to prevent such circumstances so as to pursue diverse political agendas at the expense of migrant women. The paper's analysis restructures the trafficking contest from organized criminals versus law enforcement agencies to principally a contest between migrant women and those political agents who benefit from the moral panic associated with trafficking. It is then argued that it is these more sophisticated political actors rather than organized criminals and the clients of sex workers are the most important stakeholders in sustaining or exploiting trafficking harm. Therefore, it is concluded that resolving many trafficking harms in the EEA could be achieved by subverting political traffickers through improving migration policy rather than fighting organized crime.
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