Responding to Human Trafficking - Sex, Gender, and Culture in the Law

Alicia W. Peters is Associate Professor of Anthropology and affiliated faculty in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of New England.

List of contents

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

PART I. TRAFFICKING ON THE BOOKS

Chapter 1. A Dichotomy Emerges

PART II. THINKING, ENVISIONING, AND INTERPRETING TRAFFICKING

Chapter 2. The Experts Make Sense of the Law

Chapter 3. "Things That Involve Sex Are Just Different"

Chapter 4. Defining Trafficking Through Survivor Experience

PART III. THE LAW IN ACTION

Chapter 5. Intersections on the Ground

Chapter 6. Moving the Antitrafficking Response Forward

APPENDICES

A. Data Archiving Requirements and Threats to Confidentiality

B. Interviewees Quoted in the Text

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Alicia W. Peters

Summary

Responding to Human Trafficking explores how cultural and symbolic frameworks of sex, gender, and prostitution dominate the interpretation and implementation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and provides a detailed ethnography of its ramifications for the persons it is designed to protect.

Product details

• Authors: Alicia W Peters, Alicia W. Peters
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780812224214
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2421-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Anthropologie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Legal Reference / Law Profession, LAW / Essays, LAW / Gender & the Law