Rights Talk and Domestic Work
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A Shadow Report on Human Trafficking in Lao PDR: The US Approach vs. International Law by Anne Gallagher
Since 2001, the United States Government has issued annual reports on the situation of human trafficking in every country other than its own identified by the State Department as having a significant trafficking problem. The focus of this article is on the standards that are being used in assessing the response of States to trafficking. The article examines the way in which the US judges the performance of countries while noting that international law already provides detailed and substantive guidance on the obligations of States in this area....
read moreTrafficking and the Human Rights of Women by Janie Chuang and Anne Gallagher
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 effects of this increasingly sophisticated and...
read moreThe United States as Global Sheriff: Unilateral Sanctions and Human Trafficking by Janie Chuang
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 the international community was able to reach...
read moreRescuing Trafficking from Ideological Capture: Prostitution Reform and Anti-Trafficking Law and Policy by Janie Chuang
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 community—and are as intractable as debates over...
read moreRedirecting the Debate Over Trafficking in Women: Definitions, Paradigms, and Contexts by Janie Chuang
As evidenced by international treaties dating back to the early twentieth century, the problem of trafficking in women is by no means a new phenomenon. However, it has only been in recent years that the problem of trafficking has again drawn world-wide concern, partly in response to reports of the sexual enslavement of Muslim women in Serbian brothels during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, and partly in response to the increasing prevalence of the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. Redirecting the Debate over Trafficking in...
read moreBeyond a Snapshot: Preventing Human Trafficking in the Global Economy by Janie Chuang
Current legal responses to the problem of human trafficking often reflect a deep reluctance to address the socioeconomic root causes of the problem. Because they approach trafficking as an act (or series of acts) of violence, most responses focus predominantly on prosecuting traffickers, and to a lesser extent, protecting trafficked persons. While such approaches might account for the consequences of trafficking, they tend to overlook the broader socioeconomic reality that drives trafficking in human beings. Against this backdrop, this article...
read moreAchieving Accountability for Migrant Domestic Worker Abuse by Janie Chuang
Achieving Accountability for Migrant Domestic Worker AbuseDomestic work has become increasingly commoditized in the global economy. Migrant domestic workers’ remittances constitute a rich source of revenues for their countries of origin, while their labor ameliorates the “care deficit” experienced in wealthier countries of destination. Despite the importance of their work, migrant domestic workers are some of the most exploited workers in the world. They are often discriminated against based on their gender, class, race, nationality, and...
read moreMuckraking and Stories Untold: Ethnography Meets Journalism on Trafficked Women in the U.S. Military by Sea-Ling Cheng
Investigative journalism using visual media has become a dominant mode of knowledge production both in popular understanding of human trafficking and in policymaking. A 2002 Fox I-team report exposed the U.S. military in Korea as being actively involved in a transnational network of trafficking women into sexual slavery. The report circulated in policymaking arenas as evidence of the need to combat trafficking and prostitution via global U.S. initiatives. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from exactly the same U.S. military camp towns in South...
read moreInterrogating the Absence of HIV/AIDS Prevention for Migrant Sex Workers in South Korea by Sea-Ling Cheng
With a focus on HIV/AIDS prevention, the commentary focuses the marginalization of migrant sex workers’ right to health by both the state and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in South Korea (henceforth “Korea”). It first examines how state policy on migrant workers and migrant entertainers, in the sex industry in particular engenders human rights violations on multiple fronts. It then explores how relevant NGOs fail to intervene because of both ideological and practical preoccupations. Interrogating the Absence of...
read moreCommentary on Hughes, Chon, and Ellerman by Sea-Ling Cheng
Review of the article “Modern-Day Comfort Women: The U.S. Military, Transnational Crime, and the Trafficking of Women,” by Donna M. Hughes, Katherine Y. Chon, and Derek P. Ellerman, in the September 2007 issue of Violence Against Women. Commentary on Hughes
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