intended contribution of this article is its focus on the role of the black market economy in labor migration to Thailand. This article includes four sections. Following this introduction, part two reviews the concept of human trafficking, followed by a
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Deprivation of citizenship, undocumented labor and human trafficking
Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand
Steve Kwok-Leung Chan
In Regions and Cohesion
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 82–106 (25 total)
The Theatre of Human Trafficking
A Global Discourse on Lao Stages
Roy Huijsmans
Using the Lao PDR as a case study, this paper analyses human trafficking as discourse. Human trafficking is identified as a global discourse that is globalized through a set of powerful relations and actors. Following Appadurai, it is argued that this global discourse is not passively received by local actors such as the Lao state. This demonstrated by unravelling the global–local interactions through which it has entered the Lao social landscape. This is complemented with an analysis of a series of events in which the human trafficking discourse is staged on Lao soil. On this basis, the paper argues that the global human trafficking discourse is actively indigenized through, amongst other things, the social practice of staging. In addition, the paper argues that this indigenized discourse is employed by actors in more localized power struggles; in this case, by the Lao state as a response to boundary crises triggered by the phenomenon of cross-border migration into Thailand as an important manifestation of the overarching process of transition.
In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 66–84 (19 total)
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2017
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 132–133 (1 total)
En-Gendering Insecurities
The Case of the Migration Policy Regime in Thailand
Philippe Doneys
The paper examines the migration policy regime in Thailand using a human security lens. It suggests that insecurities experienced by migrants are partly caused or exacerbated by a migration policy regime, consisting of migration laws and regulations and non-migration related policies and programs, that pushes migrants into irregular forms of mobility and insecure employment options. These effects are worse for women migrants who have fewer resources to access legal channels while they are relegated to insecure employment in the reproductive or informal sectors. Using a gender and human security analysis, therefore, reveals how the migration policy regime, often informed by a restrictive national security approach, can clash with the human security needs of migrants by creating a large pool of unprotected irregular migrants with women occupying the most vulnerable forms of employment. In conclusion, it is suggested that this ‘en-gendering’ of human insecurities could be overcome if gender equality was designed into policies and guided their implementation.
In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 50–65 (16 total)
Slavery as the commodification of people
Wa "slaves" and their Chinese "sisters"
Magnus Fiskesjö
In the 1950s, teams of Chinese government ethnologists helped liberate “slaves” whom they identified among the Wa people in the course of China’s military annexation and pacification of the formerly autonomous Wa lands, between China and Burma. For the Chinese, the “discovery” of these “slaves” proved the Engels-Morganian evolutionist theory that the supposedly primitive and therefore predominantly egalitarian Wa society was teetering on the threshold between Ur- Communism and ancient slavery. A closer examination of the historical and cultural context of slavery in China and in the Wa lands reveals a different dynamics of commodification, which also sheds light on slavery more generally. In this article I discuss the rejection of slavery under Wa kinship ideology, the adoption of child war captives, and the anomalous Chinese mine slaves in the Wa lands. I also discuss the trade in people emerging with the opium export economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which helped sustain, yet also threatened, autonomous Wa society. I suggest that past Wa “slave” trade was spurred by the same processes of commodification that historically drove the Chinese trade in people, and in recent decades have produced the large-scale human trafficking across Asia, which UN officials have labeled “the largest slave trade in history” and which often hides slavery under the cover of kinship.
academic contribution, by Steve Kwok-Leung Chan, which addresses links between deprived citizenship among minorities in Myanmar and human trafficking in Thailand. The article highlights how transnationalism undermines human rights protections—human
Rachel J. Wilde, Gayle Clifford, Áron Bakos, and Kristine Hickle
human trafficking in the United States, focusing specifically on the experiences of children and young people. She draws upon her own research with trafficked children and youth, and weaves their narratives throughout as a means of bringing to life
Art of Solidarity
Cuban Posters for African Liberation 1967–1989
David Fleming
; human trafficking; and so on. Now showing is Art of Solidarity: Cuban Posters for African Liberation 1967–1989 , 3 the latest exhibition in a series that asks fundamental questions about the eternal fight for human rights and social justice. The images
“Stop it, f*ggot!”
Producing East European Geosexual Backwardness in the Drop-In Centre for Male Sex Workers in Berlin
Victor Trofimov
day, when I came to a usual staff meeting before opening the drop-in centre, social worker Katharina announced that Sub/Way received a visit from the police, who brought an alleged victim of human trafficking and asked Sub/Way to take care of him
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 45–63 (19 total)
Joseph Khoury
] gave the Queen’ (50), likely ‘the first recorded Muslim woman to enter the Tudor kingdom’ (50), and a case of human trafficking. We also learn that the relationship between Persia and England was presented as more natural than that with the Ottomans