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Janie Chuang | Interdisciplinary Project on Human Trafficking

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Labor abuse in the name of “cultural exchange,” courtesy of the J-1 visa program (again)

Posted by on Mar 10, 2013 in The Blog | Comments Off

On March 6, 2013, student guestworkers from around the world held a surprise strike to expose severe exploitation at McDonald’s restaurants near Harrisburg, PA.  The students guestworkers, who came from Argentina, Peru, Chile, Malaysia, among other Asian and Latin American countries, each paid $3000 to participate in the U.S. State Department’s J-1 “cultural exchange” program.  They were expecting to come to the United States to experience cultural exchange and decent...

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Congratulations to Anne Gallagher, AO!

Posted by on Jun 27, 2012 in The Blog | Comments Off

Congratulations to Dr. Anne Gallagher, who was recently honored for her pathbreaking work on human trafficking.  On June 11, 2012, Dr. Gallagher was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours list, in recognition of Dr. Gallagher’s “distinguished service to the law and to human rights as a practitioner, teacher and scholar, particularly in the areas of human trafficking responses and criminal justice.”   Earlier this...

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Trafficking and the Human Rights of Women by Janie Chuang and Anne Gallagher

Posted by on Jan 3, 2011 in Scholarship | Comments Off

The term human trafficking refers to the trade in human beings, within and between countries, for the purpose of their exploitation. Over the past few years, human trafficking has moved from the margins to the mainstream of international political discourse. Trafficking is now widely recognised as a major revenue earner for transnational organised criminal groups and a source of political, social and economic insecurity for States as well as for individuals. Few countries have escaped the...

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The United States as Global Sheriff: Unilateral Sanctions and Human Trafficking by Janie Chuang

Posted by on Jan 3, 2011 in Data Matters, Scholarship | Comments Off

In recent years, the issue of human trafficking – the recruitment or movement of persons by means of coercion or deception into exploitative labor or slavery-like practices – has moved from the margins to the mainstream political agenda. The rapid proliferation of international, regional and domestic anti-trafficking laws bespeaks universal condemnation of the practice, but belies deep divisions among States over how to define and approach the problem. It is thus significant that...

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Rescuing Trafficking from Ideological Capture: Prostitution Reform and Anti-Trafficking Law and Policy by Janie Chuang

Posted by on Jan 3, 2011 in Data Matters, Rights Talk and Sex, Scholarship | Comments Off

In the decade since it became a priority on the United States’ national agenda, the issue of human trafficking has spawned enduring controversy. New legal definitions of “trafficking” were codified in international and U.S. law in 2000, but what conduct qualifies as “trafficking” remains hotly contested. Despite shared moral outrage over the plight of trafficked persons, debates over whether trafficking encompasses voluntary prostitution continue to rend the anti-trafficking advocacy...

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