Human Trafficking in Asia: Forcing Issues

ISBN-13: 9781138087057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 238 str.

Sallie Yea

Opis

By analysing the complex issues surrounding internal and cross-border human trafficking in Asia, and asserting critical perspectives and methodologies, this book extends the range of sites for discussion and sectors in which human trafficking takes place. The book re-centres human trafficking as an area of legitimate academic inquiry in a region that is often considered as an epicentre for human trafficking: East and Southeast Asia. It thus offers an in-depth analysis and up-to-date knowledge on research methodologies and engagements, patterns and forms of human trafficking, constructively critiquing anti-trafficking campaigns and discourses, and offering examples of good practice within the region that help us move beyond the impasse that currently hampers human trafficking as a field of inquiry in the social sciences. Providing constructive avenues for human trafficking research to proceed methodologically, theoretically and ethically, this book is of interest to students and scholars of Politics, International Relations and Southeast Asian Studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Part 1: Anti-Trafficking Reconsidered 2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 3. Trafficking Versus Smuggling: Malaysia’s Anti-Trafficking Act 4. Victims of Human Trafficking or Perpetrators of Fraudulent Marriage? Foreign Spouses Engaging in the Sex Industry in Taiwan 5. Globalising Morality and Justice: Framing the Moral Economy of Women's Work in the Global Anti-Trafficking Movement Part 2: Methodological Issues in Researching Human Trafficking 6. Virgin Territory Re-explored: Ethnographic Insight, Public Policy and the Trade in Minority Women in Southeast Asia 7. In Search of the Perfect Method: Reflections on Knowing, Seeing, Measuring and Estimating Human Trafficking 8. Another Side of the Story: Challenges in Research with Unidentified and Unassisted Trafficking Victims Part 3: Complicating Human Trafficking 9. Trafficking at Sea: The Situation of Enslaved Fishermen in Southeast Asia 10. People Smuggling in Indonesia: Dependency, Exploitation and Other Vulnerabilities Part 4: Moving Forward 11. Shifting Public Anti-Trafficking Discourses in Arts and Media  12. The Role of Media Based Interventions in Combating Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia 13. Balancing Relations, Broadening Discourses? Shifting the Terrain of Local Non-Government Organisations Involvement in Anti-Trafficking Knowledge Production in Vietnam

O autorze

Sallie Yea is Visiting Fellow in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore.