BTS Short Course – Table of Contents

BTS Short Course

Table of Contents

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• 1. Popular and Political Representations
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• 2. Forced Labour in the Global Economy
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• 3. State and the Law
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• 4. On History
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• 5. Migration and Mobility
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• 6. Race, Ethnicity and Belonging
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• 7. Childhood and Youth
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• 8. Gender
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1. Popular and Political Representations

Edited by Joel Quirk and Julia O'Connell Davidson

1. Introduction: Moving beyond popular representations of trafficking and slavery – Joel Quirk and Julia O’Connell Davidson

Section one: political rhetoric and popular theatrics

1. The rhetoric and reality of ‘ending slavery in our lifetime’ – Joel Quirk
2. The challenges and perils of reframing trafficking as ‘modern-day slavery’ – Janie Chuang
3. When human trafficking becomes a Cause Celebre — Dina Haynes
4. Shilling fantasy as reality: a review of Trade and Holly — Kerwin Kaye
5. ‘Irish slaves’: the convenient myth — Liam Hogan

Section two: challenging the white saviour industrial complex

1. The white man’s burden revisited — Kamala Kempadoo
2. From Utah to the ‘darkest corners of the world’: the militarisation of raid and rescue — Garrett Nagaishi
3. Fielding the wrong ball: culture as a cause of ‘modern slavery’ — Sam Okyere
4. Residual causes: Wilberforce and forced labour — Vanessa Pupavac
5. Feminism’s undeservedly bad reputation in anti-trafficking discourse — Ingrid Palmary

Section three: the mythology of a ‘few bad apples’

1. The politics of exception: the bipartisan appeal of human trafficking — Joel Quirk and Annie Bunting
2. Slavery and trafficking: beyond the hollow call — Neil Howard
3. Q&A: Extreme exploitation is not a problem of human nature — Bridget Anderson
4. Immigration politics, slavery talk: the case for a class perspective — Ben Rogaly
5. Modern slavery, child trafficking, and the rise of West African football academies — James Esson

Section four: sex work and sensationalism

1. Domestic sex trafficking and the punitive side of anti-trafficking protection — Jennifer Musto
2. From HIV to trafficking: shifting frames for sex work in India — Svati P. Shah
3. A guide to respectful reporting and writing on sex work — Marlise Richter, Ntokozo Yingwana, Lesego Tlhwale & Ruvimbo Tenga
4. Rescuing the market? Comparing Agustin’s Sex at the Margins and Bales’ Understanding Global Slavery — Bridget Anderson

Section five: the politics of numbers, or quantification without foundation

1. Mapping the politics of national rankings in the movement against “modern slavery” — Siobhán McGrath and Fabiola Mieres
2. Miscounting human trafficking and slavery — Ronald Weitzer
3. How big is the trafficking problem? The mysteries of quantification — Sally Engle Merry
4. Human trafficking and Africa’s ‘pornography of pain’: the pitfalls of CSR — Marlise Richter & Joel Quirk

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2. Forced Labour in the Global Economy

Edited by Genevieve LeBaron and Neil Howard

1. Forced labour in the global economy — Genevieve LeBaron and Neil Howard

Section one: forced labour in the world

1. What has forced labour to do with poverty? — Nicola Phillips
2. Forced labour under a changing climate: droughts and debt in semi-arid India — Marcus Taylor
3. The role of market intermediaries in driving forced and unfree labour — Kendra Strauss
4. Capitalism’s unfree global workforce — Susan Ferguson and David McNally

Section two: sector-specific dynamics

1. It’s time to get serious about forced labour in supply chains — Genevieve LeBaron
2. Food retailers, market concentration and labour — Sébastien Rioux
3. Free to stitch, or starve: capitalism and unfreedom in the global garment industry — Alessandra Mezzadri
4. Still slaving over sugar — Ben Richardson

Section three: existing policy responses

1. Harsh labour: bedrock of global capitalism — Benjamin Selwyn
2. Addressing forced labour in fragmented chains of production: protect…respect…and remedies for the global economy? — Fabiola Mieres and Siobhán McGrath
3. Global supply chains: role of law? A role for law! — Andreas Rühmkorf
4. Modern slavery and the responsibilities of individual consumers — Christian Barry and Kate MacDonald

Section four: benchmarking and labour governance

1. The politics of numbers: the Global Slavery Index and the marketplace of activism — André Broome and Joel Quirk
2. ILO campaigns: missing the wood for the trees? – Jens Lerche
3. What would loosen the roots of labour exploitation in supply chains? — Rachel Wilshaw
4. Basic income and the anti-slavery movement — Neil Howard
5. Forced labour is big business: states and corporations are doing little to stop it — Genevieve LeBaron and Neil Howard

ISBN: 978-0-9970507-2-1
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3. State and the Law

Edited by Prabha Kotiswaran and Sam Okyere

1. The role of the state and law in trafficking and modern slavery — Prabha Kotiswaran and Sam Okyere

Section one: The 2015 UK Modern Slavery Act

1. The Modern Slavery Bill: migrant domestic workers fall through the gaps — Kate Roberts
2. The dangerous appeal of the modern slavery paradigm — Judy Fudge
3. Anti-slavery responses should offer solutions not benevolence — Caroline Robinson

Section two: the paradox of borders and antitrafficking campaigns

1. Anti-trafficking campaigns, sex workers and the roots of damage — Carol Leigh
2. Anti-trafficking: whitewash for anti-immigration programmes — Nandita Sharma
3. EU’s approach to migrants: humanitarian rhetoric, inhumane treatment — Judith Sunderland and Bill Frelick
4. Filipina entertainers and South Korean anti-trafficking laws — Sealing Cheng

Section three: the state, the law and gross labour exploitation

1. From brothel to sweatshop? Questions on labour trafficking in Cambodia — Anne Elizabeth Moore
2. The Protocol of 2014 is the new global standard to combat modern slavery, but will states make it real? — Zuzanna Muskat-Gorka and Jeroen Beirnaert
3. Gotcha! the ‘bait and switch and bait again’ of US anti-trafficking policy — Alice M. Miller
4. Centring the state in our critiques of trafficking — Katie Cruz
5. Law’s Mediations: the shifting definitions of trafficking — Prabha Kotiswaran

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4. On History

Edited by Joel Quirk and Genevieve LeBaron

1. The use and abuse of history: slavery and its contemporary legacies — Joel Quirk & Genevieve LeBaron

Section one: histories of official responsibility and culpability

1. Slaves of the state: American prison labour past and present — Genevieve LeBaron
2. Using US prison labour to make crime pay — Alex Lichtenstein
3. Bigger than the World Cup: state-sponsored human trafficking in the Gulf states — Laya Behbahani
4. Happy endings? Slavery, emancipation and freedom — Julia O’Connell Davidson
5. Servants of capitalism — Sara R. Farris
6. Transforming ‘beasts into men’: colonialism, forced labour and racism in Africa — Eric Allina

Section two: histories of political activism and mobilisation

1. Uncomfortable silences: anti-slavery, colonialism, and imperialism — Joel Quirk
2. The ‘new abolitionists’ and the problem of race — James Brewer Stewart
3. ‘Not made by slaves’: the ambivalent origins of ethical consumption — Andrea Major
4. Different times, same weaknesses: abolitionism past and present
5. Nelly Schmidt
6. Sexual surveillance and moral quarantines: a history of anti-trafficking — Jessica R. Pliley
7. Anti-trafficking movements and journalism: who sets the agenda? — Gretchen Soderlund
8. Human trafficking: a parasite of prohibitionism? — Samuel Martínez

Section three: historical legacies and contemporary politics

1. A wall of silence around slavery — Ali Moussa Iye
2. Reparations are too confronting. Let’s talk about ‘modern-day slavery’ instead — Joel Quirk
3. The everyday gender inequalities that underpin wartime atrocities — Benedetta Rossi
4. The legacies of slavery in southern Senegal — Alice Bellagamba
5. Trans-Atlantic slavery and contemporary human trafficking: learning from or exploiting the past? — Karen Bravo
6. Britain must atone for its role in Maangamizi

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5. Migration and Mobility

Edited by Julia O'Connell Davidson and Neil Howard

1. On freedom and (im)mobility: how states create vulnerability by controlling human movement — Julia O’Connell Davidson and Neil Howard

Section one: the state construction of (im)mobility

1. Overcoming space: mobility and history — Laura Brace
2. The border spectacle of migrant ‘victimisation’ — Nicholas De Genova
3. Illegalised migrants and temporary foreign workers: the international segmentation of labour — Harald Bauder
4. Fascist legacies: Italy’s approach to mobility and mobile labour — Patrizia Testai
5. Rethinking (im)mobilities of Roma in Europe — Julija Sardelić

Section two: the consequences of mobility controls

1. Families in detention — Roxanne Lynn Doty
2. Slave state: how UK immigration controls create ‘slaves’ — Lucy Williams
3. The UK: the far shore for torture survivors — Rhian Beynon
4. Slavery, asylum, and the face of social death in modern day Britain — Roda Madziva
5. At any cost: the injustice of the “4 and 4 rule” in Canada — Stephanie J. Silverman
6. New mobility regimes, new forms of exploitation in Sicily — Letizia Palumbo and Alessandra Sciurba
7. No agency: laying the groundwork to exploit of migrant workers — Kirsten Han
8. Freedom fighters: freelancing as direct action — Mark Johnson

Section three: trafficking and slavery

1. Bound and determined: new abolitionism and the campaign against modern slavery — Edlie Wong
2. Rights talk, wrong comparison: trafficking and transatlantic slavery — Julia O’Connell Davidson
3. Silencing the challenging voices of the global ‘subalterns’ in anti-trafficking discourse — Lucrecia Rubio Grundell
4. Safe migration as an emerging anti-trafficking agenda? — Sverre Molland
5. ‘Foreign criminals’ and victims of trafficking: fantasies, categories, and control — Luke de Noronha 
6. North Korean migrants in China: neither trafficked nor smuggled — Kyunghee Kook
7. When spring comes, smugglers are in the news — Inka Stock
8. Criminalising traffickers is an alibi for state-produced vulnerability — Lyndsey P. Beutin

Section four: a future beyond bordering?

1. Ferries not Frontex! 10 points to end the deaths of migrants at sea — The Alarm Phone
2. The case for open borders — Joseph H. Carens
3. Thinking about open borders — Antoine Pécoud

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6. Race, Ethnicity and Belonging

Edited by Joel Quirk and Julia O'Connell Davidson

1. Race, slavery, and the mythology of ‘colour-blindness’ — Julia O’Connell Davidson and Joel Quirk

Section one: ‘modern slavery’ and the politics of race

1. The political economy of personhood — Charles W. Mills
2. The antiblackness of “modern-day slavery” abolitionism — Tryon P. Woods
3. Don’t call it a comeback: racial slavery is not yet abolished — Jared Sexton

Section two: racial slavery and its afterlives

1. The mythology of racial democracy in Brazil — Ana Lucia Araujo
2. The present tense of (racial) slavery: the racial chattel logic of the US prison — Dylan Rodríguez
3. Racism, citizenship and deportation in the United States — Tanya Golash-Boza
4. Shades of white: gender, race, and slavery in the Caribbean — Cecily Jones
5. Slavery’s afterlife in the Euro-Mediterranean basin — P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon Woods
6. The politics of slavery, racism and democracy in Mauritania — E. Ann McDougall

Section three: ethnicity, belonging, and ‘modern slavery’

1. A master plan for Indigenous freedom — Jillian K. Marsh
2. Undermining indigenous self-determination and land access in highland Peru — Arthur Scarritt
3. Adivasis in India: modern-day slaves or modern-day workers? — Alf Gunvald Nilsen
4. The hidden injuries of caste: south Indian tea workers and economic crisis — Jayaseelan Raj
5. Warehousing Palestine — Teodora Todorova
6. Why Roma migrate — Will Guy
7. Capitalist dispossession and new justifications of slavery — Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood

Section four: legacies and memories of slavery

1. RasTafari and reparation time — Robbie Shilliam
2. Is memory enough? Remembering the racial legacies of slavery in France today — Nicola Frith and Kate Hodgson
3. The need for reparatory justice — P.J. Patterson

ISBN: 978-0-9970507-6-9
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7. Childhood and Youth

Edited by Neil Howard and Sam Okyere

1. Are we really saving the children? — Sam Okyere and Neil Howard

Section one: are we really saving the children?

1. The (anti-)politics of ‘child protection’ — Jason Hart
2. The cognitive dissonance between child rescue and child protection — Kristen E. Cheney
3. What do children need most: saving, rights or solidarity? — Karen Wells
4. Child trafficking: ‘worst form’ of child labour, or worst approach to young migrants? — Roy Huijsmans
5. Doing more harm than good: the politics of child trafficking prevention in South Africa — Thea de Gruchy, Joel Quirk, Marlise Richter and Jo Vearey

Section two: child labour or child work?

1. Working children: rights and wrongs — Michael Bourdillon
2. Prohibiting children from working is a bad idea — William Myers
3. Child work, schooling and mobility — Jo Boyden and Gina Crivello
4. Child rights in the chocolate industry: a rocky road to progress — Amanda Berlan
5. Children, capitalism and slavery — Hugh Cunningham
6. On Bolivia’s new child labour law — Neil Howard

Section three: child trafficking or youth mobility?

1. The creation of ‘trafficking’ — Mike Dottridge
2. Pathologising young people’s movement — Iman Hashim
3. Beyond child trafficking — Tanja Bastia
4. Young people’s migration and the pursuit of status — Karin Heissler
5. ‘Children’ in global sex work and trafficking discourses — Treena Orchard
6. Child trafficking: what are we really talking about? — Viviene Cree
7. Fake morals and forced identities for young migrants in Europe — Brenda Oude Breuil

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8. Gender

Edited by Sam Okyere and Prabha Kotiswaran

1. The gendered victims of (anti)trafficking — Sam Okyere and Prabha Kotiswaran

Section one: gender and ‘modern slavery’

1. Convenient Conflations: Modern Slavery, Trafficking, and Prostitution — Julia O’Connell Davidson
2. Workers, not slaves: domestic labourers against the law — Eileen Boris
3. The need for a gendered approach to exploitation and trafficking — Letizia Palumbo
4. Migrant rights for migrant hostesses? When the anti-trafficking framework runs out — Hae Yeon Choo
5. American arrogance and the movement to end ‘female genital mutilation’ — Lisa Wade
6. Early marriage and the limits of freedom — Srila Roy

Section two: the persistence of the prostitution question

1. The irony of criminalising prostitution as a form of ‘modern slavery’ — Julia Laite
2. Why decriminalise sex work? — Global Network of Sex Work Projects
3. Amnesty’s proposal to decriminalise sex work: contents and discontents — Simanti Dasgupta
4. Decriminalising sex work in New Zealand: its history and impact — Fraser Crichton

Section three: the problem with ‘rescue’

1. Violence in the safety of home: life in Nigeria after selling sex in Europe — Sine Plambech
2. Speaking of “dead prostitutes”: how CATW promotes survivors to silence sex workers — Jason Congdon
3. Rescued but not released: the ‘protective custody’ of sex workers in India — Vibhuti Ramachandran
4. The anti-trafficking rehabilitation complex: commodity activism and slave-free goods — Elena Shih

Section four: gender and migration

1. Who’s responsible for violence against migrant women? — Jane Freedman
2. Immigration status and domestic violence — Sundari Anitha
3. Rape and asylum claims: credibility and the construction of vulnerability — Vanessa Munro, Sharon Cowan and Helen Baillot
4. Amnesty’s proposal to decriminalise sex work: contents and discontents — Simanti Dasgupta