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Disrupting Anti-Trafficking Norms : Survivors, Practitioners and the Future of Global Interventions.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Author/Creator:
- Woworuntu, Shandra.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- This critical volume explores why anti-trafficking efforts continue to fail, highlighting structural causes and centering survivor and practitioner voices to call for transformative, justice-focused responses to human trafficking.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Content warning
- Disclaimer
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: For whose benefit? Critical perspectives on addressing human trafficking
- The authors
- Book structure
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Part I Everything you should know (or un-know) about anti-trafficking
- 1 The life of 'Candy': surviving human trafficking and anti-trafficking
- Introduction
- My American Dream
- Life as 'Candy'
- The price of freedom
- Grassroots activism
- Mentari and a survivor-centred approach
- Behind the scenes of a survivor-advocate
- The future of anti-trafficking
- 2 Everything, everywhere, all at once: a status check of contemporary human exploitation
- Vector one: the perfect storm
- Vector two: human exploitation, smuggling of migrants and the politics of border control
- Vector three: the costs of a rights-based approach
- 3 A step in the right direction: could human trafficking be in decline?
- Estimates of trafficking
- Drivers of vulnerability and resilience to trafficking
- Human development
- Economic indicators
- Rights
- Violence, conflict and displacement
- Crime opportunity theory and criminal justice data
- 4 The estrangement of the trafficking protocol from its parent treaty against transnational organized crime
- A difficult birth
- A misspent youth
- Preventing and combating trafficking in persons
- Protecting and assisting victims of trafficking
- Promoting cooperation among state parties
- Return of the prodigal protocol
- References.
- 5 Deadly digital borders: surveillance and artificial intelligence as a driver of human trafficking
- Introduction: an ethnographic reflection on the human costs of algorithms at the border
- AI against trafficking: control, prediction, and digital humanitarianism
- Digitally facilitated journeys: tech as tool of movement
- Cross-border policing and the global tech nexus
- Ethical dilemmas and human rights in the age of AI at the border
- Conclusion: rethinking AI in anti-trafficking governance
- Part II Anti-trafficking at the crossroads: the future of human trafficking interventions
- 6 From the ashes of the desert: a survivor's call for reckoning and reimagination
- A mother's dream
- The lie of opportunity
- Through the gates of hell
- 7 Embracing complexity in counter-trafficking policy and practice
- Understanding complexity
- Blind spots
- Embracing complexity
- Ten questions to ask before you accept, design, or deliver a counter-trafficking intervention
- 8 State as refugee trafficker? Reflections from the margins
- Fleeing the womb-abyss
- From womb-abyss into the abyss of exile
- State trafficking
- Poetics of resistance
- 9 From risk scores to rights: governing artificial intelligence in anti-trafficking through a human rights-based approach
- Underpinning logics of AI applications in anti-trafficking intervention
- Computational logics: how AI frames trafficking
- Institutional and design contexts: how AI systems reshape participation and power
- Epistemic harm: flawed data and proxy logics
- Normative harm: knowledge, technical, and procedural exclusion
- Structural harm: enforcement-centred design and deployment.
- Governing AI in anti-trafficking: ethical, procedural, and legal limits
- Ethical frameworks: high principles, low enforceability
- Procedural safeguards: operationalization without transformation
- Legal instruments: enforceability without structural justice
- Towards a human rights-based approach in AI-based anti-trafficking systems
- Funding
- 10 Justice against power: marshalling a credible response for slavery eradication
- One story
- The commonalities of slavery
- The political economies of slavery
- Implications of the political economies of slavery
- Debt
- Anti-slavery as anti-poverty
- Marshalling a response
- Protest as leadership
- Towards an agenda for action
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Woworuntu, Shandra Disrupting Anti-Trafficking Norms
- ISBN:
- 9781447377740
- OCLC:
- 1610749565
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