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dc.contributor.authorSharapov, Kirilen
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-14T14:13:22Zen
dc.date.available2016-01-14T14:13:22Zen
dc.date.issued2015-08-20en
dc.identifier.citationSharapov, K. (2015) 'Traffickers and Their Victims': Anti-Trafficking Policy in the United Kingdom' Critical Sociology doi: 10.1177/0896920515598562en
dc.identifier.issn0896-9205en
dc.identifier.issn1569-1632en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0896920515598562en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/593458en
dc.description.abstractThis paper relies upon the ‘what’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to policy analysis to interrogate key representations of human trafficking implicit in the UK government’s anti-trafficking policy. It identifies six policy vectors, or representations, of human trafficking embedded within the policy, including organized crime, ‘illegal’ immigration, and victim assistance as three primary vectors; sexual exploitation/prostitution, poverty in countries of victims’ origin, and isolated instances of labour law infringements as three secondary vectors. In addition, a series of assumptions, which underlie the current interpretation of trafficking, are also identified. By exploring what the problem of human trafficking is represented to be, the paper also provides an insight into what remains obscured within the context of the dominant policy frameworks. In doing so, it highlights the role of state-capital entanglements in normalizing exploitation of trafficked, smuggled and ‘offshored’ labour, and critiques the UK’s anti-trafficking policy for manufacturing doubt as to the structural causes of human trafficking within the context of neoliberalism.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGEen
dc.relation.urlhttp://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/0896920515598562en
dc.rightsArchived with thanks to Critical Sociologyen
dc.subjecttrafficking in human beingsen
dc.subjectpolitical economyen
dc.subjectneoliberalismen
dc.subjectgovernment policyen
dc.subjectexploitationen
dc.subjectignoranceen
dc.subjectbiopoliticsen
dc.subjecttraffickingen
dc.title'Traffickers and their victims': anti-trafficking policy in the United Kingdomen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Bedfordshireen
dc.identifier.journalCritical Sociologyen
html.description.abstractThis paper relies upon the ‘what’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to policy analysis to interrogate key representations of human trafficking implicit in the UK government’s anti-trafficking policy. It identifies six policy vectors, or representations, of human trafficking embedded within the policy, including organized crime, ‘illegal’ immigration, and victim assistance as three primary vectors; sexual exploitation/prostitution, poverty in countries of victims’ origin, and isolated instances of labour law infringements as three secondary vectors. In addition, a series of assumptions, which underlie the current interpretation of trafficking, are also identified. By exploring what the problem of human trafficking is represented to be, the paper also provides an insight into what remains obscured within the context of the dominant policy frameworks. In doing so, it highlights the role of state-capital entanglements in normalizing exploitation of trafficked, smuggled and ‘offshored’ labour, and critiques the UK’s anti-trafficking policy for manufacturing doubt as to the structural causes of human trafficking within the context of neoliberalism.


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