...Elena Shih This article is interested in why and how Thailand functions as a pivotal destination for US human-trafficking rescue projects, and it situates transnational antitrafficking endeavors within Thai political and economic history. Based on ethnographic participant observation of the global...

... this industry is negotiated at the village level in the context of Vietnamese state rhetoric equating female marriage migration to human trafficking and the delocalization of the marriage process (“being chosen,” being trained and being married) to foreign men from villages to larger cities. Recent expansions...

... Parreñas is professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California. Her current research examines the intersections of human trafficking and labor migration. The author of four books and numerous articles on women’s labor...

... nongovernmental organizations’ (NGOs) reports on the camp town club industry in South Korea,11 scholars such as Seungsook Moon and Jinkyung Lee characterize the migrant flow into the camp town club industry since the mid-­1990s as human trafficking.12...

... causes launched and defined by similar conservative groups in the advanced countries. In 2005, Taiwan’s Garden of Hope hosted a conference on “Strategies for Combating Human Trafficking from Southeast Asia to Taiwan” in collaboration...

...” by hosting international visitors on “human-­trafficking reality tours.” These tours are not purely philanthropic or educational events but rather occur as a part of “free-­market humanitarianism,” where visi- tors from the West enact...

..., Human Traffickers,” Star , August 30, 2018, www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/08/30/immigration-set-to-crack-down-hard-on-illegals-human-traffickers/ . 15 Aliza Shah, “No Deadline Set for Op Mega 3.0,” New Straits Times , July 28, 2018, www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2018/07/395567/no-deadline...

... and Lincoln are cited as sources of the belief that human trafficking cannot be permitted in a civilized society. When Confucian imperatives are laid liter- ally paragraph-by-paragraph with Parent-Duchatelet, Charlemagne, St. Au- gustine...

... to uncover instances of human trafficking in Vietnam (Bélanger), does not reflect the economic and cultural desires of the people involved in the indus- try. Attempts to morally bar commercial sex and their restrictive governance (e.g., in relation...

... are the transnational middle class such as advocates, academics, lawmakers, and the media people, including the Philippine elite. Recently, such overt sexualization of the workers has also subjected Filipino male workers in the night businesses. Whatever workers' sex and sexual orientation, they are seen not as humans...

...). Sylvia Nam is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include market formations in transitioning cities. Seunghan Paek is a researcher in the Institute of Humanities at Yonsei University...

... in a new land or as victims of interna- tional human trafficking and racism.21 Japanese prostitutes in Manchuria, on the other hand, are described as casualties of Japanese colonial expansion as well as the precursors of Japanese comfort women.22...

... would deter the more “respectable” Chinese from moving to Hong Kong -a decision “which may affect the prosperity of the Colony.”78 Robinson’s distinction between respectable Chinese and traffickers in human commodities was another...

... Kingdom (ASEASUK) Conference , University of London , September 17 . Andreveski Hannah , and Lyneham Samantha . 2014 . “ Experiences of Exploitation and Human Trafficking among a Sample of Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers .” Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice , no. 471...

...- sive trafficking into sex work.”1 In the dominant Philippine — as well as the global — context, the term, however, evokes a much larger scope than sex trafficking, though certainly this subaltern sphere is essentially constitutive...

... into slavery and death. Unlike Haibara and Manda, who often go out of their way to rescue a client from debt hell, Ushijima lacks any moral pretense. He has no qualms about a lost limb or selling children to human traffickers. Set in the streets...

... were hubs for much of Henan Province's human trafficking. Girls as young as fourteen could be sold by their family members into sex work at one of the urban village's many brothels. In the mornings, I found myself obsessed with figuring out whether the young women sitting across the propane-tank...

..., trafficking, and so on: it is the importance of bringing into ideological and scholarly representation an appreciation that women’s centrality is as workers and thus primary actors in the NIDL and neoliberal capitalism as such. Here is where Laura...

... or underfinanced.49 At the same time, the strong yen attracted illegal Chinese immigrants, mainly unskilled workers and hardcore criminals arriving with the help of human traffickers. Their very presence in the country being illegal, these people...

... it was still happening. The police broke up our “trafficking pipeline.” We did not give up. Four years later, in April this year [2005] we made a second attempt. This time we officially invited a total of twelve movies from Tai- pei, Hong Kong, Jinan...