Traf­fick­ing and pros­ti­tu­tion are wide­ly believed to be syn­ony­mous, and to be lead­ing inter­na­tion­al crimes. This col­lec­tion argues against such sen­sa­tion­al­ism and advances care­ful­ly con­sid­ered and ground­ed alter­na­tives for under­stand­ing transna­tion­al migra­tions, forced labor, sex work, and liveli­hood strate­gies under new forms of glob­al­iza­tion. From their long-term engage­ments as anti-traf­fick­ing advo­cates, the authors unpack the con­tem­po­rary inter­na­tion­al debate on traf­fick­ing. They main­tain that rather than a new ‘white slave trade,’ we are wit­ness­ing today, more broad­ly, an increase in the vio­la­tion of the rights of free­dom of move­ment, decent employ­ment, and social and eco­nom­ic secu­ri­ty. Crit­i­cal exam­i­na­tions of state anti-traf­fick­ing inter­ven­tions, includ­ing the U.S.- led War on Traf­fick­ing, also reveal links to a broad­er attack on undoc­u­ment­ed migrants; trib­al and abo­rig­i­nal peo­ples; poor women, men, and chil­dren; and sex work­ers. The book sheds new light on every­day cir­cum­stances, pop­u­lar dis­cours­es, and strate­gies for sur­vival under twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal con­di­tions, with a focus on Asia, but with lessons glob­al­ly. Con­trib­u­tors: Natasha Ahmad, Vachararu­tai Boon­ti­nand, Lin Chew, Melis­sa Dit­more, John Fred­er­ick, Matthew S. Fried­man, Josephine Ho, Jagori, Rat­na Kapur, Phil Mar­shall, Jyoti Sanghera, Susu Thatun.

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