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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRescued but not released: the ‘protective custody’ of sex workers in IndiaProtective homes for women in India are carceral institutions that confine women rescued from the sex trade. Tied to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryViolence in the safety of home: life in Nigeria after selling sex in EuropeMany women find themselves returning to situations of everyday violence after being ‘saved’ from selling sex in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhy decriminalise sex work?An open letter in support of Amnesty International's recent proposals to decriminalise sex work.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryChildren in global sex work and trafficking discoursesIt is too simple to frame children involved in child prostitution in India and ‘sex trafficking’ in Canada as mere...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySexual surveillance and moral quarantines: a history of anti-traffickingThe US government is using anti-human trafficking laws to intensify the surveillance and criminalisation of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAnti-trafficking campaigns, sex workers and the roots of damageAnti-trafficking campaigns have their roots in 19th-century efforts to ‘save’ white women from ‘white slavery.’...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA guide to respectful reporting and writing on sex workJournalists and researchers writing about sex workers do long-lasting damage to their sources when they treat sex...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRescuing the market? Comparing Agustin’s ‘Sex at the margins’ and Bales’ ‘Understanding global slavery’‘Sex at the margins’ and ‘Understanding global slavery’ are, on the surface, markedly different treatments of modern...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDomestic sex trafficking and the punitive side of anti-trafficking protectionDespite efforts to automatically label teen and youth sex workers as ‘victims’ of trafficking, and thereby prevent...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFrom HIV to trafficking: shifting frames for sex work in IndiaThe conflation of trafficking and prostitution in antitrafficking discourses not only frames all sex workers as...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySpeaking of “dead prostitutes”: how CATW promotes survivors to silence sex workersIn calling for the Associated Press to stop using the phrase ‘sex worker’, the Coalition Against Trafficking in...
