transnational feminism, postsocialism, and the politics of sex trafficking
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Suchland, Jennifer
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- WER 38 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenhandel, seksindustrie, prostitutie, geweld, migratie, economie, globalisering, ngo's, mensenrechten, VN, USSR, Oost-Europa
- Description
- 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.