White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking

Chapters in this book offer critically valuable scholarship grounded in anti-racist perspectives illuminating the historical and contemporary racial mechanisms within global anti-trafficking discourses and practices. Topics converge and intersect with gender, citizenship, sexuality, class formations, and the global political economy.

Global efforts to combat human trafficking are ubiquitous and reference particular ideas about unfreedoms, suffering, and rescue. The discourse has, however, a distinct racialized legacy that is lodged specifically in fears about "white slavery," women in prostitution and migration, and the defilement of white womanhood by the criminal and racialized Other. White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking centers the legacies of race and racism in contemporary anti-trafficking work and examines them in greater detail.

A number of recent arguments have suggested that race and racism are not only visible, but vital, to the success of contemporary anti- trafficking discourses and movements. The contributors offer recent scholarship grounded in critical anti- racist perspectives that reveal the historical and contemporary racial working of anti- trafficking discourses and practices globally-and how these intersect with gender, citizenship, sexuality, caste and class formations, and the global political economy.

Autorentext

Kamala Kempadoo is Professor of Social Science at York University, Canada. She has published extensively on the Caribbean sex trade, global sex workers' rights, and hegemonic anti- trafficking discourses, including the books Global Sex Workers (edited with Jo Doezema, Routledge 1998), Sexing the Caribbean (Routledge 2004), and Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered (edited with Jyoti Sanghera and Bandana Pattanaik, Paradigm 2005/ 2011). More recently, she is co-editor, with Halimah A. F. DeShong, of the collection Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender and Sexuality (Ian Randle Press 2021).

Elena Shih is Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University in the U.S., where she directs a human trafficking research cluster through Brown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Her research focuses on the impact of anti- trafficking programs on the policing of migration, sex work, gender, and poverty. She is the author of Manufacturing Freedom (University of California Press 2023), a global ethnography of anti-trafficking rehabilitation in China, Thailand, and the U.S.

Inhalt

Introduction

Rethinking the Field from Anti-Racist and Decolonial Perspectives
Kamala Kempadoo and Elena Shih

White Supremacy and Imperialism in Anti-Trafficking

1. Anti-Trafficking and Anti-smuggling Campaigns in West Africa as New Racialised Migration Deterrence Efforts
   Sam Okyere and Peter Olayiwola

2. Trafficking, Terror and their Tropes
   Pardis Mahdavi

3. The Anti-Trafficking Apparatus has a Racial Justice Problem
   Lyndsey Beutin

4. Exploring the Role of Race and Racial Difference in the Legislative Intent of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
   Arifa Raza

5. Global White Supremacy and Anti-Trafficking: Race, Racism, and the Politics of Human Trafficking
   Elya Durisin

6. To Trip the White Fantastic: The Road from White Supremacy to Sex Trafficking Safaris
   Gregory Mitchell **** Colonialism and Racialization in Anti-Trafficking

7. Whore's Passport: Racialism, National Identity and the Trafficking of Brazilian Women
   Thaddeus Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva

8. Anti-Trafficking and Settler-Colonial Discourses of Protection: The Coloniality of Racialized Interventions
   Julie Kaye

9. The Jaula and Racialization of the Amazon: Reflections on Racism and Geopolitics in the Struggle Against Human Trafficking in Brazil
   José Miguel Nieto Olivar and Flávia Melo

10. Constructing Victims and Criminals Through the Racial Figure of 'The Gypsy'
    Marlene Spanger

11. "Is It Because I'm Not Young and White with Blue Eyes?": Canadian Police Response to Sex Workers of Color's Experiences of Exploitation and Trafficking
    Menaka Raguparan

12. Trafficking Indianness by Legislating Settler Sexuality Logics
    April Petillo

13. Imperial Anti-Trafficking: Producing Racialized Knowledge Regimes over the Longue Durée
    Mishal Khan **** Migrant and Sex Worker Resistance to Anti-Trafficking

14. Resistance of Butterfly: Mobilization of Asian Migrant Sex Workers Against Sexism and Racism in Canadian Anti-Trafficking Measures
    Elene Lam, Jaden Hsin-Yun Peng and Coly Chau

15. The Aesthetic of Migrant Sex Work: Creation of White Identity and Perceived Moral Superiority
    Nada DeCat

16. Sex Work in Jamaica: Trafficking, Modern Slavery and Slavery's Afterlives
    Julia O'Connell Davidson and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor

17. Migrant Domestic Workers, Asylum-Seekers and Premonitions of Anti-Trafficking in Hong Kong
    Julie Ham, Iulia Gheorghiu and Eni Lestari