ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the continuities and discontinuities of work in support of vulnerable and politically and socially challenged women. It describes the conflicts among women and between men and women that make work on human trafficking, in particular, very difficult and very challenging. The chapter also looks at some emerging trends in the politics and activism around human and child trafficking, changes that make trafficking both more visible and identifiable and, thus, potentially more open for political action. In the Webinar on Human Trafficking, a young woman in her mid-twenties described being drawn into prostitution and herself linked this to her own history and the identity-undermining effects of sexual abuse. Human trafficking functions as a global network: countries from which people are trafficked, countries that are the agents of transmittal, and countries that consume what has been trafficked. The Super Bowl is considered to be the single event annually in the USA generating the most instances of trafficking.
