Elena Shih is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. Her current book project, The Price of Freedom: Moral and Political Economies of Global Human Trafficking Rescue, is based off 40 months of ethnographic participant observation of the transnational movement to combat human trafficking. She is also a Faculty Fellow leading the Human Trafficking Research Cluster through the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. She tweets at: @uhlenna.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureHow has philanthrocapitalism helped or hurt the anti-trafficking movement?The injection of billions of dollars of private capital into anti-trafficking work has changed the field. Is that a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe fight to decriminalise sex workCOVID-19 threatens both the lives and livelihoods of sex workers yet governments look the other way. A new...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroduction: do the hidden costs outweigh the practical benefits of human trafficking awareness campaigns?Raising awareness campaigns may be motivated by good intentions, but how much do they actually accomplish? What are...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe anti-trafficking rehabilitation complex: commodity activism and slave-free goodsNGOs that provide alternative, low-wage employment for 'rescued' sex workers market their goods as 'slave free', yet...