ABSTRACT
The aim of this study was to reveal the power relations in the construction of counter-trafficking. The analysis of the construction shed light on blind spots and aspects of the implementation of counter-trafficking as a transnational social policy, namely the distance of counter-trafficking from its primary target group, the trafficked people. The aim of this study is to analyse the construction of the transnational field of counter-trafficking (TFCT) as a field and the ideological closure of the field. Counter-trafficking has been conceptualised as a transnational field which is constructed at both the international and nation-state levels. This study concludes that although transnationalisation brings about the homogenisation of the construction of counter-trafficking fields in different countries, it does not equate the functionality of the mentioned fields. The functioning of the counter-trafficking field in Ukraine is by no means equal to that in Turkey, for instance. Rather, transnationalisation brings about the complementary functioning of different national fields of counter-trafficking.
