States ‘combat trafficking’ to put a humanitarian face on their punitive anti-immigration policies. For this reason alone the project of anti-trafficking must go.
As a matter of political tactics, implementation of existing legislation should be re-oriented according to human rights. But in terms of strategic thinking, we need to stop focusing on criminal law and adopt a social justice approach.
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