Purity, Victimhood and Agency: Fifteen years of the UN Trafficking Protocol

When the women’s movement reverted back to the nineteenth-century Victorian concept of ‘trafficking in women’ to address abuses of migrant women in the sex industry, it unwittingly adopted not only a highly morally biased concept—dividing women into innocent victims in need of rescue and guilty ones...

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Main Author: Marjan Wijers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women 2015-04-01
Series:Anti-Trafficking Review
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Online Access:https://antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/90