Anti-trafficking

Keywords forced migration, trafficking, smuggling, anti trafficking, legislation. Trafficking Protocol of2000, prostitution, forced labour, asylum, politics... 

At first sight this seems less problematic for states, which are concerned with ciiminalizmg a process, but in fact using a migration lens to interrogate anti-trafficking can also reveal difficult policy tensions, both with reference to labour migration and with reference to asylum. 

Chuang, J. (2010) Rescuing Trafficking from Ideological Capture Prostitution Reform and Anti-Trafficking Law and Policy. University of Pennsylvania Law Review 158 1655-728. 

Howard, N. (2012) Accountable to Whom Accountable for What Understanding Anti-Child Trafficking Discourse and Policy in Southern Benin. Anti-Trafficking Review 1 43-59. 

Sharma, N. (2003) Travel Agency A Critique of Anti-Trafficking Campaigns. Refuge 21 53-65. 

United States Government Accountability Office (2006) Human Trafficking Better Data, Strategy and Reporting Needed to Enhance U.S. Anti-Trafficking Efforts Abroad. Washington, DC US GAO. 

UAE is a destination country for men and women trafficked for the purposes of labor and commercial sexual exploitation...[We recommend that the UAE] continue to increase law enforcement efforts to identify, prosecute and punish acts of sex trafficking...In practice, government authorities continue to interpret the anti-trafficking law to exclude some who have been forced into commercial sexual exploitation of labor. 

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