What Happened to Sex Trafficking? The New Moral Panic of Men, Boys and Fish in the Mekong Region

Molland, Sverre

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“…The book is based on ongoing fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar over an seven-year time period (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019), which is part of one of the world's largest hubs for precarious, low-skilled labour migration (Martin, Erni, and Yue 2019). The research sprung out of my earlier research on anti-trafficking interventions along the Lao-Thai border (Molland 2012b). Over the years, I noticed how several individuals and organisations within the antitrafficking community in the Mekong region would appropriate and utilise the term "safe migration" in their work.…”

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“…Alongside "human trafficking" and "modern slavery," safe migration was emerging as yet another "buzzword" in the aid sector. Whereas scholarly attention has generated considerable mileage in relation to trafficking and modern slavery (Gallagher 2017;Kempadoo et al 2015;Kotiswaran 2017;O'Connell Davidson 2015;Stoyanova 2017), academic interrogation of safe migration is to this day nearly non-existent (for exceptions, see Bylander 2019;Huijsmans 2014;Kiss and Zimmerman 2019;Molland 2012a). Safe migration was to me low-hanging fruit which was waiting to be studied.…”

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“…Methodologically, my fieldwork has been based on what I have elsewhere labelled "tandem ethnography" (Molland 2013), that is oscillating methodology between the domain of policy one seeks to investigate and the social world which the policy domain attempts to objectify. This involves interrogating the discursive characteristics of safe migration, coupled with tracing how it becomes operationalised through practices.…”

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Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia

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2021

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The book investigates how the United Nations, governments, and aid agencies mobilise and instrumentalise migration policies and programmes through a discourse of safe migration.Since the early 2000s, numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs), UN agencies, and governments have warmed to the concept of safe migration, often within a context of anti-trafficking interventions. Yet, both the policy-enthusiasm for safety, as well as how safe migration comes into being through policies and programmes remain unexplored. Based on seven years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Mekong region, this is the first book that traces the emergence of safe migration, why certain aid actors gravitate towards the concept, as well as how safe migration policies and programmes unfold through aid agencies and government bodies. The book argues that safe migration is best understood as brokered safety. Although safe migration policy interventions attempt to formalize pre-emptive and protective measures to enhance labour migrants' well-being, the book shows through vivid ethnographic details how formal migration assistance in itself depends on -and produces -informal and mediated practices.The book offers unprecedented insights into what safe migration policies look like in practice. It is an innovate contribution to contemporary theorising of contemporary forms of migration governance and will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and human geographers working within the fields of Migration Studies, Development Studies, as well as Southeast Asian and Global Studies.

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2021

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“…When savings get depleted or access to safe credit is exhausted, individuals are forced to try out more risky options. This pattern may be particularly pronounced in sectors that use indebted labour like fishing in rural communities (Molland 2019).…”

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Supply Chains, the Informal Economy, and the Worst Forms of Child Labour

Aked¹

2021

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As a cohort of people, ‘children in work’ have become critical to the everyday functioning of diverse supply chain systems. This Working Paper considers diverse commodity chains (leather, waste, recycling and sex) to explore the business realities that generate child labour in its worst forms. A review of the literature finds that occurrence of the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) in supply chain systems is contingent on the organising logics and strategies adopted by actors in both the formal and informal economies. Piecing together the available evidence, the paper hypothesises that a supply chain system is sensitive to the use of WFCL when downward pressure to take on business risk cannot be matched by the economic resilience to absorb that risk. Emergencies and persistent stressors may increase risk and reduce resilience, shifting norms and behaviour. There is a need for further work to learn from business owners and workers in the informal economy.

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“…According to Turner (2015) & Molland (2019), human trafficking is not a new social phenomenon and it can take place both internally and externally. Trafficking in human beings has been equated to modern-day slavery (Weiss 2015, Chibwe 2016.…”

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Trafficking of women and girls in the District of Seke: Lessons from the Zimbabwe’s Second Republic

Zengenene

2020

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The study explores the phenomenon of human trafficking in Zimbabwe’s second republic under President Emerson Mnangagwa. Using conflict theory, the study argues that the discourse of human trafficking in Zimbabwe is a complex phenomenon that has led to women’s and girls’ vulnerability in the Seke District. Primary data gathered from five female core informants who have been the direct victims of human trafficking and three significant others who were the parents and guardians of human trafficking victims. The snowball sampling technique was employed to obtain the female core informants for the in-depth interviews. The study also benefitted from secondary sources such as journal articles, online newspapers, government, and international UN, ILO, UNESCO, and UNICEF reports. The results of this study show that eco-socio and political ills such as a high rate of unemployment, a shortage of essential goods, cash, corruption, electricity, gender inequality, poverty, power relations and the continuous harassment by the security forces such as the police and the army have escalated the vulnerability of women to human trafficking in Zimbabwe. Since Zimbabwe’s eco-political situation is a powerful determinant of both the continuation and abandonment of the human trafficking social phenomena, this study recommends that the present government solve the grassroots causes of the phenomena. With enforcement at the grassroots level and regional and international initiatives, human trafficking can be combated.

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What Happened to Sex Trafficking? The New Moral Panic of Men, Boys and Fish in the Mekong Region

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia

Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia

Supply Chains, the Informal Economy, and the Worst Forms of Child Labour

Trafficking of women and girls in the District of Seke: Lessons from the Zimbabwe’s Second Republic

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