Trafficking in people is often approached as an issue
of crime or
immigration control, with international bodies taking
a state
centered approach. Internationally, legislation finds
unsanctioned
migration to be a security threat to national
borders. In practice, this
not only criminalises traffickers, but trafficked
women. States fail to
acknowledge that trafficking is most acutely a
security threat to
those made vulnerable by poverty and social
isolation. Often, the
human rights dimension of trafficking legislation is
similarly flawed,
focusing exclusively on returning women to...