Paved with Good Intentions?
Human Trafficking and the Anti-trafficking Movement in Singapore
Authors: Yea, Sallie
Free Preview- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-30
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Mobilising the Child Victim: The Emergence of a Trafficking Master Narrative
Pages 31-57
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Girls on Film: Framing Human Trafficking Through Film and the Cinema
Pages 59-86
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Elastic Victimhood: The State, NGOs, and Negotiating the Parameters of Anti-trafficking
Pages 87-114
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(In)visible Women and (Anti)-trafficking
Pages 115-145
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Paved with Good Intentions?
- Book Subtitle
- Human Trafficking and the Anti-trafficking Movement in Singapore
- Authors
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- Sallie Yea
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-13-3239-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-13-3239-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-3238-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 247
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations
- Topics
