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About the Author; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Introduction: Positioning trafficking in women; 1 White slavery and trafficking as political myth; 2 The construction of innocence and the spectre of chaos; 3 Metaphorical innocence: white slavery in America; 4 'Prevent, protect and punish'; 5 Now you see her, now you don't: consent, sex workers and the Human Rights Caucus; 6 Towards a reinscription of myth; Notes; Primary sources; Works cited; Index.

Representations of human trafficking in the 21st century bare an astonishing resemblance to descriptions of 'White slavery' 100 years ago. The typical victim is young, naive & pretty. She wanted a better life, was attracted, deceived & forced into prostitution. This melodramatic account often says more about the society that produces prostitution than the woman it is supposed to describe. This is shown, for example, by comparing a 1885 report by W. T. Steads about his research on white slavery in London & a 2003 report on human trafficking in Romania. Adapted from the source document.

"Die Darstellungen von Menschenhandel im 21. Jahrhundert gleichen frappierend den hundert Jahre älteren Beschreibungen der 'weißen Sklaverei'. Das typische Opfer ist jung, naiv und schön. Es habe ein besseres Leben gewollt, sei angelockt, getäuscht und dann zur Prostitution gezwungen worden. Dieses melodramatische Bild sagt oft mehr über die Gesellschaft, die es produziert, als über die Frauen, die es beschreiben soll. Exemplarisch lässt sich dies an einem Bericht von W.T. Steads aus dem Jahre 1885 über seine Recherchen zur weißen Sklaverei in London und einem Bericht über Menschenhandel in Rumänien im Jahr 2003 zeigen." (Autorenreferat)

In December 2000, over 80 countries signed the 'Protocol to Suppress, Prevent and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children' (The Trafficking Protocol) in Palermo, Italy. The UN Trafficking Protocol was the target of heavy feminist lobbying during the two years in which the negotiations took place. The lobby efforts were split into two 'camps', deeply divided in their attitudes towards prostitution. One lobby group framed prostitution as legitimate labour. The other considered all prostitution to be a violation of women's human rights. Not only feminist NGO networks were deeply divided over the issue of prostitution. Many state delegations used the negotiations as an opportunity to denounce the evils of prostitution, while others (fewer in number) argued that focusing on prostitution detracted from the efforts to come to an agreement on trafficking. These differences were most ferociously fought out during debates on the proposed definition of trafficking, with the pivotal term 'consent'. This article is an examination of the role played by sex workers in these debates, and of 'sex work' in competing definitions of trafficking in women.

Trafficking in women' has, in recent years, been the subject of intense feminist debate. This article analyses the position of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and the writings of its founder, Kathleen Barry. It suggests that CATW's construction of 'third world prostitutes' is part of a wider western feminist impulse to construct a damaged 'other' as justification for its own interventionist impulses. The central argument of this article is that the 'injured body' of the 'third world trafficking victim' in international feminist debates around trafficking in women serves as a powerful metaphor for advancing certain feminist interests, which cannot be assumed to be those of third world sex workers themselves. This argument is advanced through a comparison of Victorian feminist campaigns against prostitution in India with contemporary feminist campaigns against trafficking. The term 'injured identity' is drawn from Wendy Brown's (1995) States of Injury, Power and Freedom in Late Modernity. Brown argues that certain groups have configured their claims to inclusion in the liberal state in terms of 'historical 'injuries'. Antoinette Burton (1998) extends Brown's analysis to look at Victorian feminists' relationship to Empire, arguing that the 'injured identities' of colonial 'others' were central to feminist efforts to mark out their own role in Empire. This paper builds on Burton's analysis, asking what role the 'injured identities' of third world sex workers play in the construction of certain contemporary feminist identities. The notion of 'injured identities' offers a provocative way to begin to examine how CATW feminists position the 'trafficking victim' in their discourse. If 'injured identity' is a constituent element of late modern subject formation, this may help explain why CATW and Barry rely so heavily on the 'suffering' of 'third world trafficking victims' in their discourses of women's subjugation. It also raises questions about the possible repressive consequences of CATW's efforts to combat 'trafficking in women' through 'protective' legislation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Globalizing Sex Workers' Rights -- PART ONE: RETHINKING SEX WORK -- Introduction -- 1. Forced to Choose: Beyond the Voluntary v. Forced Prostitution Dichotomy -- 2. Debt-Bondage and Trafficking: Don't Believe the Hype -- 3. An International Perspective on Slavery in the Sex Industry -- 4. Women, Labor, and Migration: The Position of Trafficked Women and Strategies for Support -- 5. Discourses of Prostitution: The Case of Cuba -- 6. Prostitution, Stigma, and the Law in Japan: A Feminist Roundtable Discussion -- PART TWO: MIGRATIONS AND TOURISM -- Introduction -- 7. Ghanaian Women and Prostitution in Cote d'Ivoire -- 8. From Thailand to Japan: Migrant Sex Workers as Autonomous Subjects -- 9. The Migrant Tightrope: Experiences from the Caribbean -- 10. Children, Prostitution, and Identity: A Case Study from a Tourist Resort in Thailand -- 11. Hustling for Dollars: Jineterismo in Cuba -- PART THREE: SEX WORKERS' ORGANIZATIONS -- Introduction -- 12. The Association of Autonomous Women Workers, Ecuador, "22nd June" -- 13. Japanese Sex Workers: Encourage, Empower, Trust, and Love Yourselves! -- 14. The Exotic Dancers Alliance: An Interview with Dawn Passar and Johanna Breyer -- 15. SWEAT: The Development and Implementation of a Sex Worker Advocacy and Intervention Program in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- 16. A World of People: Sex Workers in Mexico -- 17. The Wind of Change Is Whispering at Your Door: The Mahila Samanwaya Committee -- 18. International Activism: Jo Doezema interviews NWSP Coordinator, Cheryl Overs -- 19. Transgenders and Sex Work in Malaysia -- 20. It's Good to Know: The Maxi Linder Association in Suriname -- PART FOUR: AIDS PREVENTION AND SEX WORKERS' EMPOWERMENT -- Introduction