Human trafficking : women's stories of agency / by Maria De Angelis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-174) and index.

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List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Foreword / Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe -- Acknowledgements. Chapter 1 Introduction: setting the scene : Trafficking stories -- Agency -- Lived trafficking experience -- Researching trafficking stories -- Limitations and strengths of the collection -- The legal and policy context -- Outline of the book. Chapter 2 A reflexive account of the research process and an introduction to participants : Introduction -- Producing knowledge -- "Where obtained:" gaining access and finding participants -- "How obtained and by whom" -- Methods for producing knowledge -- Focus group -- Women's semi-structured interviews -- Professional semi-structured interviews -- "Whose knowledges and for what purpose" -- Ethics -- Handling data -- Diseminating research -- "From whom" -- Vignettes. Chapter 3 Trafficking identity : Introduction and outline -- THe imagery of a victim of trafficking (VoT) -- The ideal crime victim -- The right sort of crime victim -- New campaign tools, old images? -- WOmen's sense of a trafficked self -- Women's pre-trafficking persona -- The gains and losses in a victim narrative -- Professional actions -- Chapter summary. Chapter 4 Trafficking benchmarks : Introduction and outline -- Why do women place themselves at risk of being trafficked? Examining the socio-political an deconomic context of trafficking -- So how are we to understand issues of consent, coercion and exploitation in a trafficking experience? -- Consent -- Coercion -- A professional recognition trap -- Exploitations -- Chapter summary. Chapter 5 WOmen's well-being freedom and agency freedom : Introduction and outline -- Women's well-being freedom -- "No recourse to public funds" -- Health care and social support -- Facing a culture of disbelief -- Subjective freedom -- Women's agency freedom -- Social practices -- Work, education/training, and volunteering -- Consumer freedoms -- Sexual agency -- Professional impacts on agency -- Chapter summary. Chapter 6 Collecting story-shaping praxis : Introduction and outline -- Policing the "3-P" paradigm in human trafficking -- Praxis issues -- Role conflict -- ANti-trafficking training -- Police, prostitution and trafficking -- Policing the prostitute subject in a discourse of human traficking -- Praxis issues -- Prostitution -- Desistance -- Marriage and human trafficking -- Policing the marriage subject in a discourse of human trafficking -- Negotiating the marriage terrain -- Praxis issues -- Is it trafficking? -- Is it immigration? -- Assessing marriage as a trafficking exploitation -- Domestic violence immigration rule -- Advocating for agency -- Insider insights -- Concluding note on praxis -- Future directions -- Inderdisciplinary exhange as a way of highlighting victimhood and raising agency -- The ongoing need for research on lived experiences in human trafficking. Bibliography -- Index.

This book explores women's stories of agency in a lived experience of trafficking. The idea of agency is a difficult concept to fathom, given the unscrupulous acts and exploitative practices which define trafficking. In response to the '3-P' anti-trafficking paradigm - to prevent and protect victims and prosecute traffickers - official discourse constructs agency in singular opposition to victimhood. The 'true' victim of trafficking is reified in attributes of passivity and worthiness, whereas signs of women's agency are read as consent in their own predicament or as culpability in criminal.

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