Human Trafficking on the Global Periphery: A Terrible Spectacle

Sandy, Larissa

Abstract

In mainstream criminological research, human trafficking has been constructed as a form of transnational organized crime, with the institutionalization of this approach reflected in international criminal law. Based on ethnographic research and secondary sources, in this chapter I undertake a spatially sensitive analysis of trafficked persons’ experiences, and national and international laws and documents. The chapter highlights how trafficking laws and policies support the dominant anti-prostitution stance and perpetuate the grand narrative of trafficking-as-transnational-organized-crime. Using Southern theory as a lens through which to analyze hegemonic dynamics within approaches to trafficking and consider asymmetrical power relations that shape and dictate experiences in the global South, the chapter gives priority to Southern experiences and perspectives and sets out to produce a different account of theorizing about trafficking.

• Online Publication Date: Jan 13, 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Deposit Date: Jun 29, 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Pages: 347-367
• Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South
• ISBN: 9783319650203
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65021-0_18
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5278433