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Human trafficking : women's stories of agency / by Maria De Angelis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Angelis, Maria, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human trafficking--Case studies.
- Human trafficking.
- Women--Crimes against--Case studies.
- Women.
- Women--Crimes against.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 176 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- This book explores women's stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe
- Chapter 1. Introduction: setting the scene : Trafficking stories
- Agency
- Lived trafficking experience
- Researching trafficking stories
- Limitations and strengths of the collection
- The legal and policy context
- Outline of the book
- Chapter 2. A reflexive account of the research process and an introduction to participants : Introduction
- Producing knowledge
- "Where obtained:" gaining access and finding participants
- "How obtained and by whom"
- Methods for producing knowledge
- Focus group
- Women's semi-structured interviews
- Professional semi-structured interviews
- "Whose knowledges and for what purpose"
- Ethics
- Handling data
- Diseminating research
- "From whom"
- Vignettes
- Chapter 3. Trafficking identity : Introduction and outline
- THe imagery of a victim of trafficking (VoT)
- The ideal crime victim
- The right sort of crime victim
- New campaign tools, old images?
- WOmen's sense of a trafficked self
- Women's pre-trafficking persona
- The gains and losses in a victim narrative
- Professional actions
- Chapter summary
- Chapter 4. Trafficking benchmarks : Introduction and outline
- Why do women place themselves at risk of being trafficked? Examining the socio-political an deconomic context of trafficking
- So how are we to understand issues of consent, coercion and exploitation in a trafficking experience?
- Consent
- Coercion
- A professional recognition trap
- Exploitations
- Chapter 5. WOmen's well-being freedom and agency freedom : Introduction and outline
- Women's well-being freedom
- "No recourse to public funds"
- Health care and social support
- Facing a culture of disbelief
- Subjective freedom
- Women's agency freedom
- Social practices
- Work, education/training, and volunteering
- Consumer freedoms
- Sexual agency
- Professional impacts on agency
- Chapter 6. Collecting story-shaping praxis : Introduction and outline
- Policing the "3-P" paradigm in human trafficking
- Praxis issues
- Role conflict
- ANti-trafficking training
- Police, prostitution and trafficking
- Policing the prostitute subject in a discourse of human traficking
- Prostitution
- Desistance
- Marriage and human trafficking
- Policing the marriage subject in a discourse of human trafficking
- Negotiating the marriage terrain
- Is it trafficking?
- Is it immigration?
- Assessing marriage as a trafficking exploitation
- Domestic violence immigration rule
- Advocating for agency
- Insider insights
- Concluding note on praxis
- Future directions
- Inderdisciplinary exhange as a way of highlighting victimhood and raising agency
- The ongoing need for research on lived experiences in human trafficking.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-174) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781443885263
- 1443885266
- OCLC:
- 930255239
- Publisher Number:
- 99968845557
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