Paved with good intentions? : human trafficking and the anti-trafficking movement in Singapore / Sallie Yea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yea, Sallie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human trafficking--Singapore.

Human trafficking.

Human trafficking--Asia.

Human trafficking--Prevention.

Human trafficking--Prevention--International cooperation.

International cooperation.

Asia.

Singapore.

Physical Description:

xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Summary:

"This book focuses on human trafficking and the anti-trafficking movement, particularly as it is expressed in Southeast Asia. The study is based on ethnographic research of the emerging anti-trafficking movement in Singapore, and in-depth interviews and observations with victims of human trafficking and others subject to labour exploitation in Singapore. Research in the book adds to the significant amount of work documenting human trafficking in Asia, by offering a critical academic perspective on the rise of the anti-trafficking movement. Readers will gain an understanding of how anti-trafficking operates as a new social movement and state practice, and how anti-trafficking often sits at odds with the experiences of trafficked and exploited persons themselves"--Back cover.

Contents:

Mobilising the child victim: the emergence of a trafficking master narrative

Girls on film: framing human trafficking through film and the cinema

Elastic victimhood: the state, NGOs, and negotiating the parameters of anti-trafficking

(In)visible women and (anti)-trafficking

(Un)identified men and labour exploitation

Spaces of deflection and deportability beyond anti-trafficking

discretion and obfuscation in exclusions from anti-trafficking

Conclusion: paved with good intentions?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

981133238X

9789811332388

OCLC:

1057637431