2021
DOI: 10.1177/08861099211058827
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Problematizing the Educational Messaging on Sex Trafficking in the US “End-demand” Movement: The (Mis)Representation of Victims and Anti-Sex Work Rhetoric

Abstract: This study adopts a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to problematize the representation of victims in the online educational messaging on sex trafficking promoted in the US “end-demand” movement. The websites of 20 US anti-trafficking groups are analyzed. While these website-based messages are positioned to educate the public about sex trafficking, they are predominately framed toward problematizing sex work and essentializing women with racialized and marginalized identities in sex work, with no dis… Show more

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“…Women are also often portrayed as unable to understand their situation, are denied the agency to give or withhold consent to sex (work), and therefore need to be 'found' and 'rescued'. For example, a study (Hu 2022) analyzing anti-trafficking education texts aimed at stereotyping and infantilizing people in the sex work sector (including those trafficked for commercial sex) points to the failure to address intersectionality in the representational dimension, legitimizing many current anti-trafficking practices and policies with an 'end-demand' orientation. This overtly paternalistic and infantilizing policy not only exposes already marginalized sex workers to greater structural marginalization and oppression in their everyday lives, but also severely limits the involvement of sex workers and sex worker rights activists in social and political advocacy against trafficking, violence and harassment (Hu 2022).…”
Section: Dangerous and Flawed Arguments For Prohibition Threaten Sex ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Women are also often portrayed as unable to understand their situation, are denied the agency to give or withhold consent to sex (work), and therefore need to be 'found' and 'rescued'. For example, a study (Hu 2022) analyzing anti-trafficking education texts aimed at stereotyping and infantilizing people in the sex work sector (including those trafficked for commercial sex) points to the failure to address intersectionality in the representational dimension, legitimizing many current anti-trafficking practices and policies with an 'end-demand' orientation. This overtly paternalistic and infantilizing policy not only exposes already marginalized sex workers to greater structural marginalization and oppression in their everyday lives, but also severely limits the involvement of sex workers and sex worker rights activists in social and political advocacy against trafficking, violence and harassment (Hu 2022).…”
Section: Dangerous and Flawed Arguments For Prohibition Threaten Sex ...mentioning
confidence: 99%