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Who is trafficked into the sex trade and who isn’t? Who wishes to be rescued and who doesn’t? Raid and rescue operations are swift and chaotic events, fraught with confusion and uncertainty, and these questions, which are not easily answered, shape the decisions that rescuers take in their midst. Yet rarely are they acknowledged in mainstream descriptions of what raid and rescue looks like. And often, those conducting rescues or those writing about them have ignored these questions, with deleterious consequences for those being ‘rescued’.
