Jessica R. Pliley

Jessica R. Pliley is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality history at Texas State University. Her book, Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI, examines the enforcement of the United States’ first anti-trafficking law.

Sexual surveillance and moral quarantines: a history of anti-trafficking

The US government is using anti-human trafficking laws to intensify the surveillance and criminalisation of migrating women and harden the national security state—as it has since 1875.

By Jessica R. Pliley

/ 27 Apr 2015

Sexual surveillance and moral quarantines: a history of anti-trafficking

The US government is using anti-human trafficking laws to intensify the surveillance and criminalisation of migrating women and harden the national security state—as it has since 1875.

By Jessica R. Pliley

/ 27 Apr 2015