Security Meets Gender Equality in the EU

This book explores the triangular dynamics of securitisation and desecuritisation that underpin the EU's approach to trafficking in women for sexual exploitation. That is, the progressive securitisation of trafficking in women for sexual exploitation within the EU's anti-trafficking policies and the existence of two distinct and competing approaches that coexist among feminist struggles against such trend and that largely follow the two opposing views that structure feminist debates on prostitution: a neo-abolitionist approach, on the one hand, that is increasingly defended from within EU institutions, and has therefore become increasingly entangled with the securitisation of trafficking in women; and a sex work approach, on the other hand, that has been largely relegated to the domains of academia and civil society. As such, this book addresses the intersection of security and feminist neo-abolitionism within the EU's anti-trafficking policies, as well as the de-securitising potentialof the anti-trafficking advocacy of both neo-abolitionist and sex worker organisations operating at EU level. This book is unique in that it unprecedentedly brings together three bodies of literature that rarely interact: Critical Security Studies, EU Gender Studies and the feminist literature on prostitution and trafficking in women and demonstrates their fruitful interaction in an extensive empirical analysis of the EU's internal security, violence against women and anti-trafficking policies.

Explores the triangular dynamics of securitisation and de-securitisation Offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of the EU's anti-trafficking milieu Addresses the anti-trafficking struggles of neo-abolitionist and sex worker organisations as de-securitising strategies

Autorentext

Lucrecia Rubio Grundell is a UNA4CAREER Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She is doctor in Political and Social Science by the European University Institute and has participated as a postdoctoral researcher in various other Universities, including l'Université libre de Bruxelles, in Brussels, and the Univerisdad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research interests lie in the intersection between human rights, gender, intersectionality, migration and sex work, on which she has published in journals such as the European Journal of Women's Studies or Social Politics.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Internal Security and the EU: The Securitisation by Contagion of Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation.- 3. Prostitution and the EU: Neoliberalism, Vulnerability and Security.- 4. The Intersection of Security and Neo-abolitionism in the EU's Anti-trafficking Policies.- 5. Desecuritising Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation Through a Neo-Abolitionist Approach? the European Women's Lobby.- 6. Desecuritising Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation Through a Sex Work Approach? Aradau Post-anarchism and Whore-Walks.- 7. Conclusions.