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Paved with Good Intentions?

Human Trafficking and the Anti-trafficking Movement in Singapore

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Authors:
  1. Sallie Yea

    1. Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Albury-Wodonga, Australia

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  • Takes an ethnographic appraoch of human trafficking and anti-trafficking
  • Provides analysis of human trafficking in a range of sectors in one country context
  • Offers critical approaches to social and human rights movements
  • Represents the first human geography book to engage in a book length treatment of human trafficking

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Sallie Yea
    Pages 1-30

  3. Mobilising the Child Victim: The Emergence of a Trafficking Master Narrative

    • Sallie Yea
    Pages 31-57

  4. Girls on Film: Framing Human Trafficking Through Film and the Cinema

    • Sallie Yea
    Pages 59-86

  5. Elastic Victimhood: The State, NGOs, and Negotiating the Parameters of Anti-trafficking

    • Sallie Yea
    Pages 87-114

  6. (In)visible Women and (Anti)-trafficking

    • Sallie Yea
    Pages 115-145

  7. (Un)identified Men and Labour Exploitation

    • Sallie Yea
    Pages 147-180

  8. Spaces of Deflection and Deportability Beyond Anti-trafficking

    • Sallie Yea
    Pages 181-207

  9. Discretion and Obfuscation in Exclusions from Anti-trafficking

    • Sallie Yea
    Pages 209-231

  10. Conclusion: Paved with Good Intentions?

    • Sallie Yea
    Pages 233-241

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 243-247
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About this book

This book focuses on human trafficking and the anti-trafficking movement, particularly as it is expressed in Southeast Asia. The study is based on ethnographic research of the emerging anti-trafficking movement in Singapore, and in-depth interviews and observations with victims of human trafficking and others subject to labour exploitation in Singapore. Research in the book adds to the significant amount of work documenting human trafficking in Asia, by offering a critical academic perspective on the rise of the anti-trafficking movement. Readers will gain an understanding of how anti-trafficking operates as a new social movement and state practice, and how anti-trafficking often sits at odds with the experiences of trafficked and exploited persons themselves. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Albury-Wodonga, Australia

    Sallie Yea

About the author

Sallie Yea gained her PhD in Human Geography in 2000 from Monash University, Australia. She has held teaching and research positions at universities in New Zealand, Australia, South Korea and Singapore. Currently she is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Australia. She primarily teaches Human Geography and related Social Science subjects, including race/migration, international development, population geography and political geography. She has published two other books; an edited volume titled Human Trafficking in Asia; Forcing Issues(2013) and a monograph titled Trafficking Women in Korea (2015). She has over two dozen published papers and book chapters, including papers in Political Geography, Environment and Planning D, Gender Place and Culture, and Antipode. 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Paved with Good Intentions?

  • Book Subtitle: Human Trafficking and the Anti-trafficking Movement in Singapore

  • Authors: Sallie Yea

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3239-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3238-8Published: 18 November 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3239-5Published: 05 November 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 247

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Trafficking, Human Rights, Public Policy, Social Anthropology

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