Sex work is often called the oldest profession in the world. It manifests itself in a plethora of forms. A move to private locations is now taking place: contacts are established via the Internet and meetings take place at appointed places. This makes it more difficult to monitor forced work, and exploitation therefore risks remaining undetected.
This book presents empirical findings regarding exploitation in various countries, considering sex workers, traffickers and clients, and the fight against human trafficking. Countries differ vastly in their legislative approaches, ranging from highly repressive to very liberal. This volume asks whether the ongoing process of making and changing laws is sufficiently effective in fighting human trafficking. Other interventions could obtain better outcomes, such as promoting more independence among women and helping trafficked individuals to get out. Less ideology and more attention to the facts of exploitation and sex work might help to achieve these aims.
Recenzijos
The chapters connect by examining human trafficking from multiple angleslegal, social, practical, and empiricalcreating a comprehensive narrative that addresses both the challenges and potential solutions in combating human trafficking and supporting the rights and well-being of individuals in the sex industry.
Lisa R. Muftic, Western New England University
This book offers a nuanced and comprehensive overview of current debates in antitrafficking discourse. The editors foreground the book with a necessary questioning of the forced/free binary which is integral for examining the continuum of harm and risk that sex workers and victim-survivors face. I recommend this text to all scholars and students interested in forced/free labour sex industry, and gendered inequality. This is a very valuable and timely book, and the editors have done an excellent job in bringing a range of authors together.
Dr Gemma Ahearne, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Liverpool
Law and regulation
Chapter 1 - Marijke Malsch & Janine Janssen - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Mridula Shobinath - Impact of international and transnational
legal instruments on anti-trafficking legislations in Europe
Chapter 3 - Nicolle Zeegers - The shop floor effects of prostitution policies
in preventing human trafficking
Chapter 4 - Gerrie Lodder - Trafficked and on the run: rights to residence
for asylum-seeking victims of trafficking in anti-trafficking law and asylum
law
The sex worker
Chapter 5 - Irena Fercķkovį Konecnį - Sphere of influence: the governance of
sex workers' rights in contemporary Europe
Chapter 6 - Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang & Jeffrey S. Wilkinson - Overcoming insult
and injury: China transgender sex workers and intimate partner violence
Chapter 7 - Emily Kenway - You feel that you could have done so much more:
the practices and potentials of sex worker founded/led groups in tackling sex
sector exploitation
Chapter 8 - Darko Datzer and Eldan Mujanovic - Profiles of victims of
trafficking for sexual exploitation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Combating human trafficking
Chapter 9 - Warner ten Kate - The programmatic approach and the barrier
model: are we all on board?
Chapter 10 - Gunilla S. Ekberg and Kajsa Wahlberg - Twenty-five years of
enforcing the ban against the purchase of sexual services in Sweden
Chapter 11 - Marijke Malsch and Inga van Uchelen - Tactics used by exploiters
to draw their victims into sex work
The client
Chapter 12 - Marijke Malsch, Miriam Wijkman, Anne Koolenbrander, Marthe
Schotsman and Rik Schoon - The role of clients identifying forced sex work
Chapter 13 - Suzanne Hoff and Merel Brouwer - A critical look at the
criminalization of the Use of Services of trafficked persons
Conclusions
Chapter 14 - Marijke Malsch and Janine Janssen -Concluding chapter - human
trafficking in the sex industry: practices and law
Marijke Malsch is a professor of Empirical Legal studies, Open Universiteit Netherlands, and fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). Janine Janssen is a professor of Criminology and Legal Anthropology at Open Universiteit Netherlands, professor of Violence in Relations of Dependency at Avans University of Applied Sciences and at the Police Academy.
