1st Edition

The Fight Against Child Trafficking Breaking the Cycle of Structural Violence

By Élisa Narminio Copyright 2023
384 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

384 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

384 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book analyzes the contemporary effects of anti-trafficking policies on children trafficked for labour. It explores different dimensions of private and public apparatuses through which the governmentality of child trafficking manifests itself at a regional and interregional level. It investigates questions linked to the diffusion of the child trafficking norm between and within regions and... Read more

The Fight against Child Trafficking: An Introduction

Part 1: Global Governance of the Child Trafficking Norm: Constructions, Politics and Meanings-in-use

1. Constructing a global prohibition regime on child trafficking: Of deviance, defiance and poor kids

2. Performing the norm, from global to local: The case for a child trafficking norm cluster

Part 2: Paradoxes of Public Governance: The Structural Violence of the Anti-trafficking Apparatus in the EU and ASEAN

3. The apparatus of child protection: "Letting die" the trafficking victims

4. The migration apparatus and child trafficking: The capture of youth labour migrants

Part 3: The Private Sector and Child Trafficking: Structural Violence of Global Value Chains in the EU and ASEAN 

5. Child Trafficking Inc.: MNEs’ business models and loci of exploitation

6. The road to Anti-Trafficking Inc.: Transformative tipping points for socially sustainable global value chains

General Conclusion: Brewing Favourable Winds

Biography

Élisa Narminio is a Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and a tenured professeure agrégée in INALCO’s International Relations and International Business Departments, France.