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Trafficking rhetoric : race, migration, and the making of modern-day slavery / Annie Hill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Annie (Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing), author.
- Series:
- New directions in rhetoric and materiality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human trafficking--Great Britain.
- Human trafficking.
- Slavery--Great Britain.
- Slavery.
- Racism--Great Britain.
- Racism.
- Rhetoric--Social aspects.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- x, 145 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University, [2024]
- Summary:
- "A critical examination of the UK's antitrafficking agenda that exposes-through analysis of official estimates, policy papers, NGO reports, news stories, and awareness campaigns-the state's rescue mission as actually being an anti-immigration project intended to preserve the UK as an Anglo-white space"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The torque of state veneration and state violence
- Speculative figures : the rhetorical material of trafficking estimates
- Anti-Blackness by analogy : human trafficking as modern-day slavery
- Glaring whiteness : trafficking visual rhetoric and tropes of blindness
- "A really hostile environment for illegal migrants" : state violence, misery, and immobility
- Conclusion: The disappearing right to remain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-139) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814215586
- 0814215580
- 9780814259092
- 081425909X
- OCLC:
- 1414457069
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