Rights Talk and Domestic Work
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The Eye of the Beholder: How Bad Data, Scrambles for Funding and Professional Bias Shape Human Trafficking Law and Policy, Dina Francesca Haynes
Following is a portion of a draft chapter entitled The Eye of the Beholder: How Bad Data, Scrambles for Funding and Professional Bias Shape Human Trafficking Law and Policy Human trafficking is not unique in having attracted multiple and conflicting points of view on everything from the extent of the problem, the definition of what the problem is precisely, and who are its victims to how to best to support them. Like “sexy” and “of the moment” human rights issues of earlier decades, such as female genital mutilation...
read moreLaw and Neoclassical Economic Development: Toward an Institutionalist Critique of Institutionalism by Chantal Thomas
In his 1993 Nobel Laureate lecture, the leading theorist of institutional economics, Douglass North, emphasized the relevance of his life’s work for economic development policy… Part One and Part Two
read morePrabha Kotiswaran Reviews the UNODC Report on South Asia
Responses to Human Trafficking in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka Legal and Policy Review UNODC, Regional Office for South Asia Principal Author Dr. Sarasu Esther Thomas International law has witnessed considerable activity around the issue of trafficking in the past decade. Particularly significant is the adoption by the UN of the 2000 United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking Against Persons, Especially Women and Children (“UN Protocol”)[1] supplementing the 2000 United Nations Convention Against...
read moreEngendering Development/Marketing Equality by Kerry Rittich
In a recent policy research report, Engendering Development: Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, the World Bank lays out a new “market-centered” approach to gender equality. Engendering Development is important for at least two reasons. First, it represents the most ambitious and comprehensive attempt by the Bank to date to explore and resolve the relationship between two goals that have often been in tension, gender equality and the pursuit of economic growth. Second, it represents a significant departure from...
read moreTrafficked Victims or Labor Migrants? The Indentured Mobility of Filipina Hostess Workers in Japan – Kimberly Kay Hoang reviews Rhacel Parrenas’ new book: Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo
Congratulations to Rhacel Parrenas for this glowing review of her latest book, Illicit Flirtations?: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo! To read the review, click here.
read moreKristof and the Rescue Industry: The Soft Side of Imperialism, Laura Agustin
Laura Agustin, Kristof and the Rescue Industry: The Soft Side of Imperialism (January 25, 2012) This article originally appeared in counterpunch. To view the original, click here. The Soft Side of Imperialism Reasons abound to be turned off by the New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof. He is too pleased with himself and demonstrates no capacity for self-reflection. He is too earnest. He claims to be in the vanguard of journalism because he tweets. He is said to be Doing Something about human suffering while the rest of us don’t...
read moreCritical Directions in Comparative Family Law: Genealogies and Contemporary Studies of Family Law Exceptionalism by Janet Halley and Kerry Rittich
This is an Introduction to a Special Issue of the American Journal of Comparative Law, edited by Janet Halley. The central theme of the Special Issue is “family law exceptionalism”: the myriad ways in which the family and its law are deemed, either descriptively or normatively, to be special. We argue that the nineteenth century emergence of Family Law as a distinct legal topic, influenced inter alia by Friedrich Carl von Savigny and carried around the world as part of the influence of German legal thought, was an intrinsic element...
read moreReview of Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, Laura Agustin
Laura Agustin, Review of Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (February 2012) This read the original review on H-Net, click here. A Man of Moral Sentiments Siddharth Kara’s Sex Trafficking is not a scholarly book. Neither based on methodological research nor reflecting knowledge of literature that could give context to the author’s experience, this reads like the diary of a poverty tourist or the bildungsroman of an unsophisticated man of moral sentiments demonstrating his pain at unfathomable injustices....
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