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Human trafficking and online networks: policy, analysis, and ignorance
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- Hdl Handle:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10547/593481
- Title:
- Human trafficking and online networks: policy, analysis, and ignorance
- Authors:
- Abstract:
- Dominant anti-trafficking policy discourses represent trafficking as an issue of crime, “illegal” migration, victimhood and humanitarianism. Such a narrow focus is not an adequate response to the interplay between technology, trafficking and anti-trafficking. This article explores different levels of analysis and the interplay between human trafficking and technology. We argue for a shift from policy discourses with a very limited focus on crime and victimisation to more systemic understandings of trafficking and more robust micro-analyses of trafficking and everyday life. The article calls for an agnotological understanding of policy responses to trafficking and technology: these depend upon the production of ignorance. We critique limitations in policy understandings of trafficking-related aspects of online spaces, and argue for better engagement with online networks. We conclude that there is a need to move beyond a focus on “new” technology and exceptionalist claims about “modern slavery” towards greater attention to everyday exploitation within neoliberalism.
- Affiliation:
- Citation:
- Mendel, J., Sharapov, K. (2016) 'Human Trafficking and Online Networks: Policy, Analysis, and Ignorance' Antipode 48 (3) 665-684
- Publisher:
- Journal:
- Issue Date:
- 2016
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10547/593481
- DOI:
- 10.1111/anti.12213
- Additional Links:
- http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/anti.12213; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12213/abstract
- Type:
- Article
- Language:
- en
- ISSN:
- 0066-4812
- Sponsors:
- The People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ REA grant agreement PIEF-GA-2011-29840
- Appears in Collections:
- International Centre for the Study of Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Children and Young People
Full metadata record
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Mendel, Jonathan | en |
dc.contributor.author | Sharapov, Kiril | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-14T14:15:20Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2016-01-14T14:15:20Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Mendel, J., Sharapov, K. (2016) 'Human Trafficking and Online Networks: Policy, Analysis, and Ignorance' Antipode 48 (3) 665-684 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0066-4812 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/anti.12213 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10547/593481 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Dominant anti-trafficking policy discourses represent trafficking as an issue of crime, “illegal” migration, victimhood and humanitarianism. Such a narrow focus is not an adequate response to the interplay between technology, trafficking and anti-trafficking. This article explores different levels of analysis and the interplay between human trafficking and technology. We argue for a shift from policy discourses with a very limited focus on crime and victimisation to more systemic understandings of trafficking and more robust micro-analyses of trafficking and everyday life. The article calls for an agnotological understanding of policy responses to trafficking and technology: these depend upon the production of ignorance. We critique limitations in policy understandings of trafficking-related aspects of online spaces, and argue for better engagement with online networks. We conclude that there is a need to move beyond a focus on “new” technology and exceptionalist claims about “modern slavery” towards greater attention to everyday exploitation within neoliberalism. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | The People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ REA grant agreement PIEF-GA-2011-29840 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en |
dc.relation.url | http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/anti.12213 | en |
dc.relation.url | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12213/abstract | en |
dc.subject | agnotology | en |
dc.subject | ignorance | en |
dc.subject | Internet | en |
dc.subject | neoliberalism | en |
dc.subject | trafficking in human beings | en |
dc.subject | technology | en |
dc.subject | networks | en |
dc.subject | online networks | en |
dc.title | Human trafficking and online networks: policy, analysis, and ignorance | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.contributor.department | University of Bedfordshire | en |
dc.contributor.department | University of Dundee | en |
dc.identifier.journal | Antipode | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of Dundee | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of Bedfordshire | en |
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