Why was the current UN anti- trafficking convention passed in 2000? What is trafficking and how rampant is it? Why do the state and police aggressively pursue sex workers? What’s America got to do with it? This episode 4 tracks contemporary global anti-trafficking discourses. Warning: Adult themes. Listener discretion advised.

Host: Surabhi Chatterjee
Audio production: Pruthu Parab
Cover Art illustration: Rini Alphonsa Joseph

The intro music is Wake up, Max by Axel Lundström. Other music is sourced from the Youtube audio library and include: Frightmare – Jimena Contreras; No Indication – TrackTribe; Nature Nurture, Bossa Sonsa, Funky Carioca – Quincas Moreira; Blast from the Past, Broken Ladder – Jeremy Black.

Sources:
Juno Mac and Molly Smith (2018). “Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights”; Melissa Gira Grant (2014), Playing the Whore; Amia Srinivasan (2020), The Right to Sex.
George, A., Vindhya, U., & Ray, S. (2010). Sex Trafficking and Sex Work: Definitions, Debates and Dynamics;
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols
Joe Doezema, “Ouch!: Western Feminists' 'Wounded Attachment' to the 'Third World Prostitute'”; “Loose Women or Lost Women: The Re-emergence of the Myth of White Slavery in Contemporary Discourses of Trafficking in Women”
Laura Lammasneiemi. “White Slavery’: the origins of the anti-trafficking movement”; Eric Weiner. 'The Long,Colorful History of the Mann Act'; Jessica R. Pliley , Sexual surveillance and moral quarantines: a history of anti-trafficking.
Elizabeth Bernstein. 'The Sexual Politics of the ‘New Abolitionism’; Janie A. Chuang, “Exploitation Creep And The Unmaking Of Human Trafficking Law”; “Human Trafficking” You’re Wrong About; Joanne Mcneil. The ‘White Slavery’ Panic; US Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons’ website;

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