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    'Traffickers and their victims': anti-trafficking policy in the United Kingdom

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    Authors
    Sharapov, Kiril
    Affiliation
    University of Bedfordshire
    Issue Date
    2015-08-20
    Subjects
    trafficking in human beings
    political economy
    neoliberalism
    government policy
    exploitation
    ignorance
    biopolitics
    trafficking
    
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    Abstract
    This paper relies upon the ‘what’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to policy analysis to interrogate key representations of human trafficking implicit in the UK government’s anti-trafficking policy. It identifies six policy vectors, or representations, of human trafficking embedded within the policy, including organized crime, ‘illegal’ immigration, and victim assistance as three primary vectors; sexual exploitation/prostitution, poverty in countries of victims’ origin, and isolated instances of labour law infringements as three secondary vectors. In addition, a series of assumptions, which underlie the current interpretation of trafficking, are also identified. By exploring what the problem of human trafficking is represented to be, the paper also provides an insight into what remains obscured within the context of the dominant policy frameworks. In doing so, it highlights the role of state-capital entanglements in normalizing exploitation of trafficked, smuggled and ‘offshored’ labour, and critiques the UK’s anti-trafficking policy for manufacturing doubt as to the structural causes of human trafficking within the context of neoliberalism.
    Citation
    Sharapov, K. (2015) 'Traffickers and Their Victims': Anti-Trafficking Policy in the United Kingdom' Critical Sociology doi: 10.1177/0896920515598562
    Publisher
    SAGE
    Journal
    Critical Sociology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/593458
    DOI
    10.1177/0896920515598562
    Additional Links
    http://crs.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/0896920515598562
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0896-9205
    1569-1632
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1177/0896920515598562
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