1st Edition
Trafficking and Sex Work Gender, Race and Public Order
Introduction
Mathilde Darley
PART I: Making Trafficking Come True: Counting, Expertising, and Classifying
1 How to Establish the Reality of Trafficking in Women? The Selective Disqualification of Sources by the Special Body of Experts of the League of Nations (1924–1927)
Jean-Michel Chaumont
2 Sex Trafficking and “Reality Tourism” in Thailand: New Experts
Elizabeth Bernstein and Elena Shih
3 From Social Experience to Cultural Expertise: the Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Identifying Sex Trafficking Victims in France
Mathilde Darley
4 Negotiating the Territories of Anti-Trafficking Efforts: the “Unlikely Cooperation” Between Police Officers and Social Workers in Germany
Julia Leser and Anne Dölemeyer
5 “There’s No Place Like Home”: “Return Policies” for Human Trafficking Victims in Bulgaria
Nadege Ragaru
6 Assessing Damages for Sexual Exploitation: the Compensation of Trafficking Victims in France
Milena Jakšić
PART II: For the Sake of the Victims: Criminalizing Sex Work, Gendering Public Order
7 French Abolitionism: From Eradicating Regulationism to Promoting Social Care
Lilian Mathieu
8 What Sex Workers Think About Victimhood, Violence, and Exploitation: Insights From a Collaborative Study Prioritizing Sex Workers’ Voices
Hélene Le Bail and Calogero Giametta
9 Gender Violence and Violence Against Sex Workers: Irreconcilable Perspectives
Marylene Lieber and Elorri Harriet
10 Policing Sex Work, Producing Gender: Gendered Division of Labor and Management of Sexual Illegalisms
Gwénaëlle Mainsant
11 Pimps on Trial
Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Lilian Mathieu
PART III: Think Globally, Act Locally: Anti-Trafficking Policies, From Universal Humanitarian Discourse to National Border Controls
12 Migration and Security: The Danger of Anti-Trafficking Heritage in Brazil
Guilherme Mansur Dias
13 Fighting Human Trafficking Away From a Human Rights Frame: the Effects of Anti-Trafficking Regimes in Brazil
Adriana Piscitelli
14 Trafficking Prevention for Workforce Retention Categorizing “Women at Risk” in Laos
Estelle Miramond
15 Red Lights for Prostitution: Policing the Purchase of Sex in Norway
Synnove Okland Jahnsen and May-Len Skilbrei
16 Judging Sexual Exploitation: a “Cultural” Crime?
Mathilde Darley
Biography
Mathilde Darley is a CNRS researcher at the CESDIP (Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Criminal Justice, France). Her research works deal with border control, migrants’ detention, police work, gender, prostitution, and human trafficking. Together with Rebecca Pates (University of Leipzig, Germany), she coordinated the ANR-DFG research project ProsCrim on trafficking in human beings in France and Germany from 2014 to 2018 (ANR-13-FRAL-0014-01). Her recent publications include "Policing and Gender in France" (with J. Gauthier, 2021); "Caring for Victims of Human Trafficking: Staging and Bridging Cultural Differences in Germany and France" (with A. Dölemeyer, 2020); "Sexe, droit et migrations. La traite des êtres humains saisie par les institutions" (2021).
