ABSTRACT
Global efforts to combat human trafficking are ubiquitous and reference particular ideas about unfreedoms, suffering, and rescue. The discourse has, however, a distinct racialized legacy that is lodged specifically in fears about "white slavery," women in prostitution and migration, and the defilement of white womanhood by the criminal and racialized Other. White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking centers the legacies of race and racism in contemporary anti-trafficking work and examines them in greater detail.
A number of recent arguments have suggested that race and racism are not only visible, but vital, to the success of contemporary anti- trafficking discourses and movements. The contributors offer recent scholarship grounded in critical anti- racist perspectives that reveal the historical and contemporary racial working of anti- trafficking discourses and practices globally—and how these intersect with gender, citizenship, sexuality, caste and class formations, and the global political economy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|85 pages
White Supremacy and Imperialism in Anti-Trafficking
chapter Chapter 5|13 pages
Global White Supremacy and Anti-Trafficking
chapter Chapter 6|8 pages
To Trip the White Fantastic
part II|101 pages
Colonialism and Racialization in Anti-Trafficking
chapter Chapter 7|16 pages
Whore's Passport
chapter Chapter 8|17 pages
Anti-Trafficking and Settler-Colonial Discourses of Protection
chapter Chapter 9|18 pages
The Jaula and Racialization of the Amazon
chapter Chapter 10|16 pages
Constructing Victims and Criminals through the Racial Figure of “The Gypsy”
chapter Chapter 11|17 pages
“Is It Because I'm Not Young and White with Blue Eyes?”
chapter Chapter 13|7 pages
Imperial Anti-Trafficking in India
part III|64 pages
Migrant and Sex Worker Resistance to Anti-Trafficking