Re-evaluating Palermo

The case of Burmese women as Chinese brides

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8104835
AutoresLaura K Hackney (autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Número4
Fecha de publicación2015-04-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnti-Trafficking Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2286-7511 • E-ISSN: 2287-0113
EditorialGlobal Alliance Against Traffic in Women (PUBLISHER • TH)
DOI10.14197/atr.20121546
OpenAlexW1571199859
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

The definition of human trafficking as set in the Trafficking Protocol (also known as the Palermo Protocol) functionally centres most of the response to the phenomenon in the criminal justice system. This occludes many of the sociopolitical determinants of vulnerability that leads to trafficking. It also discourages any real debate about the various forms of oppression and even structural violence that act as catalysts to the human trafficking market. The Trafficking Protocol, and a vast number of international organisations, non-governmental organisations and governments, focuses on statistics of prosecution rates, arrests, victim typology and organised crime. I use the example of bride trafficking along the Sino-Burmese border to illustrate the complications and, in certain instances, harm that befall an anti-trafficking regime that does not use a wider lens of migration, agency, development and gender equality to address the factors leading to exploitation

Agency (philosophy · Burmese · Computer security · Criminology · Economic Justice · Harm · Human rights · Human trafficking · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Typology · Vulnerability (computing · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law · Sex work and related issues · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies