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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

This book explores women's stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking. The idea of agency is a difficult concept to fathom, given the unscrupulous acts and exploitative practices which define trafficking. In response to the '3-P' anti-trafficking paradigm - to prevent and protect victims and prosecute traffickers - official discourse constructs agency in singular opposition to victimhood. The 'true' victim of trafficking is reified in attributes of passivity and worthiness, whereas signs of women's agency are read as consent in their own predicament or as culpability in criminal

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8770-6

OCLC:

935642497