The Body Commodity: Trafficking Women in Post Conflict Eastern Europe

ISBN-13: 9783639147933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 84 str.

Jasleen Kaur Sethi

Opis

Trafficking in people is often approached as an issueof crime or immigration control, with international bodies takinga state centered approach. Internationally, legislation findsunsanctioned migration to be a security threat to nationalborders. In practice, this not only criminalises traffickers, but traffickedwomen. States fail to acknowledge that trafficking is most acutely asecurity threat to those made vulnerable by poverty and socialisolation. Often, the human rights dimension of trafficking legislation issimilarly flawed, focusing exclusively on returning women to theircountry of origin. The focus of this study is the trafficking of womenfor the sex trade. I look at the circumstances created around a large-scale international intervention. Chapter 1 addresses theimpact of migration and security concerns on legislation.Chapter 2 considers economic and social processes that make womenvulnerable to illicit migration. Chapter 3 looks at the market fortrafficked women in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. Chapter 4 assesses mechanisms available for women. This study shouldhelp those interested in womens security in post-conflictzones.

O autorze

Jasleen Kaur Sethi is a British journalist and documentary
filmmaker. She studied MA
Human Rights at the University of Sussex in the UK before moving
to live and work in
East Africa. She also manages the website:
www.jasleenkaursethi.com, where she
keeps a blog and archive of her work.