ABSTRACT
Understanding and addressing trafficking in persons as a glocal issue tends to highlight a state-centric worldview that entrenches the locus of danger almost exclusively upon the ‘sending’ states’ moving population as opposed to exploiters in and from destination states and across the globe. This chapter engages in the human trafficking discourse by presenting Philippine vulnerability to sex trafficking as an exemplification of a ‘liquid’ problem in the ‘cosmopolarity’ of the international, a fluid cosmos polarized by socio-economic forces that traverse the Global North and South, and predominantly commodify and sexually exploit female and young bodies. It argues for alternative frames and approaches that highlight evolving ‘viscose’ solutions to complement and transcend state-centric, supply-directed anti-trafficking measures in managing a cosmopolar international system.
