Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality that trafficking is symptomatic of complex economic and social dynamics and the economies of violence that sustain them. Examining United Nations proceedings on women's rights issues, government and NGO anti-trafficking policies, and campaigns by feminist activists, Suchland contends that trafficking must be understood not solely as a criminal, gendered, and sexualized phenomenon, but as operating within global systems of precarious labor, neoliberalism, and the transition from socialist to capitalist economies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. In shifting the focus away from individual victims, and by underscoring trafficking's economic and social causes, Suchland provides a foundation for building more robust methods for combatting human trafficking.
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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Trafficking as Aberration: The Making of Globalization’s Victims
- Part I. Global
- 1. Sex Trafficking and the Making of a Feminist Subject of Analysis
- 2. The Natasha Trade and the Post–Cold War Reframing of Precarity
- Part II. Postsocialist
- 3. Second World/Second Sex: Alternative Genealogies in Feminist Homogenous Empty Time
- 4. Lost in Transition: Postsocialist Trafficking and the Erasure of Systemic Violence
- Part III. Economies of Violence
- 5. Freedom as Choice and the Neoliberal Economism of Trafficking Discourse
- Conclusion. Antitrafficking beyond the Carceral State
- Notes
- References
- Index
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