Part One: Human Trafficking: Critical Perspectives on U.S. Policy, Practice, and Discourse

Human Trafficking: Critical Perspectives on U.S. Policy, Practice, and Discourse 

CHAIR: JOHNSON, Melissa (USF) 

 

PANELISTS: JAMES, Sophie (USF) Unpaid, Emotional Labor: The True Cost of Vulnerability in Trusting AntiTrafficking Advocates 

DANLAG, Jaine (USF) Tales of Trafficking: Performing Women’s Narratives in a Sex Trafficking Rehabilitation Program in Florida 

JOHNSON, Melissa Hope (USF) Somewhere between Victim and Agent: Rethinking the Public Narrative on Sexually Exploited Youth frIday, march 2253 

LAWHORN, Joshlyn (USF) Racialized Gender in (Re)integration of Victim-Survivors of CSEC in Community Advocacy Work

 

ABSTRACT: JOHNSON, Melissa (USF) Human Trafficking: Critical Perspectives on U.S. Policy, Practice, and Discourse. Human trafficking is an issue that has gained significant global attention over the last two decades, resulting in the rapid growth of anti-trafficking initiatives. The particular ways in which human trafficking is framed by various stakeholders, including policy-makers, state agencies, advocates, and humanitarian organizations, have important implications for the development of anti-trafficking policy and practice. The papers in this session take a critical approach in examining the particular ideologies underlying anti-trafficking policy, practice, and discourse in the United States, and the implications for those who have experienced or are vulnerable to human trafficking.

 

Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.