Trafficking Trajectories (eBook)

Vulnerability, Failed Systems, and the Case for Prevention

Alicia W. Peters (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
185 Seiten
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-1-5128-2788-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Highlights the role structural vulnerability plays in the lived realities of domestic sex trafficking survivors before, during, and after trafficking

Drawing on survivor narratives and ethnographically rich accounts from frontline workers in New England, specifically Maine and New Hampshire, Trafficking Trajectories contextualizes the ways in which structural vulnerability is embodied by domestic sex trafficking survivors in complex ways over time. The book also makes legible where and when upstream responses are most needed to prevent trafficking from occurring.

Trafficking Trajectories counters the dominant trafficking narrative of victims and villains and how this narrative decontextualizes and isolates the period of victimization and rescue from broader experiences of vulnerability. Instead, Alicia Peters centers survivor experience to highlight the role of structural violence and vulnerability before, during, and after trafficking. Focusing on the lived realities of survivors, she argues that prioritizing an interventionist criminal legal response to trafficking does little to address the issues that make individuals vulnerable to trafficking in the first place and fails to end trafficking.

Peters combines nuanced accounts of survivors with the observations and quandaries faced by frontline workers to reveal opportunities for rethinking and broadening the response to trafficking to make it more focused on prevention, and thus more effective. The book reframes trafficking—not as sporadic instances of interpersonal violence requiring criminal legal intervention— but as structural violence that requires systematic and preventive intervention. Trafficking Trajectories concludes with a series of policy recommendations intended to address human trafficking at its root.

Autor

Alicia W. Peters is Associate Professor of Anthropology and affiliated faculty in the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of New England. She is author of Responding to Human Trafficking: Sex, Gender, and Culture in the Law, also available from University of Pennsylvania Press.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.9.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: care centers • criminalizing sex work • Domestic human trafficking in the United States • ethnography • front line workers • how does criminal law affect victims • human trafficking prevention • life after sex work • Modern slavery • policing victims • public mental health • social justice policy • Structural Violence • structural vulnerability • survivor narratives
• ISBN-10: 1-5128-2788-6 / 1512827886
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5128-2788-0 / 9781512827880