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Given that our organisation provides services to victims of trafficking, people might assume that we are in favour of raid and rescue. However, the women we work with have made it clear to us that there are serious issues with the raid and rescue approach. Specifically, raid and rescue can further the institutional violence that women face, even in cases where they are supposedly being ‘saved’. If we genuinely wish to help those in need, we need to look beyond both raid and rescue and the simplistic paradigm that promotes it, taking to heart the insights of intersectionality, and using these to develop alternative interventions.
