J Musto
Biographic Data
| ID | 17768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Musto |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Musto |
| SIGNATURE | MUSTO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3925-6228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Racialization within Antitrafficking Interventions Targeting Migrant Sex Workers: Findings from the Sexhum Research Project in France
This article draws on the findings of the research project Sexual Humanitarianism: Migration, Sex Work, and Trafficking (SEXHUM), a study investigating migration, sex work, and human trafficking in Australia, France, New Zealand, and the US. In this article, we focus on how racialized categories are mobilized in antitrafficking practices in France. Since April 2016, the French government has enforced a prohibitionist and neo-abolitionist law crim…
The Afterlife of Decriminalisation: Anti-trafficking, Child Protection, and the Limits of Trauma-informed Efforts
Numerous laws have passed to move away from criminalising youth who trade sex. Specialised courts have also been established to support youth. Despite proponents' contention that specialised, trauma-informed courts are less punitive than typical interventions, research is limited. This article explores one specialised dependency court's efforts to assist youth ‘at risk’. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations, I argue that laws and t…
Migration, sex work and trafficking: The racialized bordering politics of sexual humanitarianism
The article presents the findings of the SEXHUM project studying the impact of the different policies targeting migrant sex workers in Australia, France, New Zealand, and the United States. It draws on the concept of sexual humanitarianism, referring to how neoliberal constructions of vulnerability associated with sexual behaviour are implicated in humanitarian forms of support and control of migrant populations. Based on over three years of fiel…
Unfinished Decriminalization: The Impact of Section 19 of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 on Migrant Sex Workers’ Rights and Lives in Aotearoa New Zealand
In 2003, Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) passed the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 (PRA), which decriminalized sex work for NZ citizens and holders of permanent residency (PR) while excluding migrant sex workers (MSWs) from its protection. This is due to Section 19 (s19) of the PRA, added at the last minute against advice by the Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers’ Collective (NZPC) as an anti-trafficking clause. Because of s19, migrants on temporary visas …
Anti-Trafficking in the Time of Fosta/Sesta: Networked Moral Gentrification and Sexual Humanitarian Creep
Globally, sex workers have highlighted the harms that accompany anti-prostitution efforts advanced via anti-trafficking policy, and there is a growing body of social science research that has emerged documenting how anti-trafficking efforts contribute to carceral and sexual humanitarian interventions. Yet mounting evidence on the harms of anti-trafficking policies has done little to quell the passage of more laws, including policies aimed at stop…
Framing the Mother Tac: The Racialised, Sexualised and Gendered Politics of Modern Slavery in Australia
Centred on the slavery trial "Crown vs. Rungnapha Kanbut" heard in Sydney, New South Wales, between 10 April and 15 May 2019, this article seeks to frame the figure of the "Mother Tac" or the "mother of contract", also called "mama tac" or "mae tac"-a term used amongst Thai migrants to describe a woman who hosts, collects debts from, and organises work for Thai migrant sex workers in their destination country. It proposes that this largely unexpl…
Transgender People and Human Trafficking: Intersectional Exclusion of Transgender Migrants and People of Color from Anti-trafficking Protection in the United States
International audience
Community-Based Responses to Negative Health Impacts of Sexual Humanitarian Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Criminalization of Sex Work and Migration in the US
System-involvement resulting from anti-trafficking interventions and the criminalization of sex work and migration results in negative health impacts on sex workers, migrants, and people with trafficking experiences. Due to their stigmatized status, sex workers and people with trafficking experiences often struggle to access affordable, unbiased, and supportive health care. This paper will use thematic analysis of qualitative data from in-depth i…
Transing Critical Criminology: A Critical Unsettling and Transformative Anti-Carceral Feminist Reframing
Control and Protect: Collaboration, Carceral Protection, and Domestic Sex Trafficking in the United States
Control and Protect explores the meaning and significance of efforts designed to combat sex trafficking in the United States. A striking ethnographic case study of new ways in which law enforcement agents, social service providers, and nongovernmental advocates have joined forces to fight domestic sex trafficking, it reveals how these collaborations consolidate state power, resulting in carceral protectionism. This book examines how such partners…
Prostitution and Sex Work
The Trafficking-Technology Nexus
Within some public policy and scholarly accounts, human trafficking is increasingly understood as a technological problem that invites collaborative anti-trafficking solutions. A growing cohort of state, non-governmental, and corporate actors in the United States have come together around the shared contention that technology functions as both a facilitator and disrupting force of trafficking, specifically sex trafficking. Despite increased atten…
Domestic minor sex trafficking and the detention-to-protection pipeline
Notable discursive changes are afoot with respect to individuals, particularly sex trade–involved youth in the United States. Where once they may have been profiled as juvenile offenders, they are now, thanks to widespread attention to human trafficking, provisionally viewed by law enforcement and their non-state allies as potential victims of domestic minor sex trafficking, replete with traumatic pasts and turbulent family histories that authori…
Carceral Protectionism and Multi-Professional Anti-Trafficking Human Rights Work in the Netherlands
This work explores Dutch governmental and non-governmental efforts to protect persons trafficked into the Netherlands for the purposes of forced labor. By focusing on multi-professional efforts to assist trafficked persons, this analysis discusses protective agents' roles as gatekeepers, interpreters and knowledge brokers in identifying trafficked persons and in managing their experience after the temporal moment of ‘rescue’ has come to pass. Thi…
What's in a name
Transgender People and Human Trafficking: Intersectional Exclusion of Transgender Migrants and People of Color from Anti-trafficking Protection in the United States
International audience
What's in a name
Carceral Protectionism and Multi-Professional Anti-Trafficking Human Rights Work in the Netherlands
This work explores Dutch governmental and non-governmental efforts to protect persons trafficked into the Netherlands for the purposes of forced labor. By focusing on multi-professional efforts to assist trafficked persons, this analysis discusses protective agents' roles as gatekeepers, interpreters and knowledge brokers in identifying trafficked persons and in managing their experience after the temporal moment of ‘rescue’ has come to pass. Thi…
The Trafficking-Technology Nexus
Within some public policy and scholarly accounts, human trafficking is increasingly understood as a technological problem that invites collaborative anti-trafficking solutions. A growing cohort of state, non-governmental, and corporate actors in the United States have come together around the shared contention that technology functions as both a facilitator and disrupting force of trafficking, specifically sex trafficking. Despite increased atten…
Anti-Trafficking in the Time of Fosta/Sesta: Networked Moral Gentrification and Sexual Humanitarian Creep
Globally, sex workers have highlighted the harms that accompany anti-prostitution efforts advanced via anti-trafficking policy, and there is a growing body of social science research that has emerged documenting how anti-trafficking efforts contribute to carceral and sexual humanitarian interventions. Yet mounting evidence on the harms of anti-trafficking policies has done little to quell the passage of more laws, including policies aimed at stop…
Community-Based Responses to Negative Health Impacts of Sexual Humanitarian Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Criminalization of Sex Work and Migration in the US
System-involvement resulting from anti-trafficking interventions and the criminalization of sex work and migration results in negative health impacts on sex workers, migrants, and people with trafficking experiences. Due to their stigmatized status, sex workers and people with trafficking experiences often struggle to access affordable, unbiased, and supportive health care. This paper will use thematic analysis of qualitative data from in-depth i…
Transing Critical Criminology: A Critical Unsettling and Transformative Anti-Carceral Feminist Reframing
The Afterlife of Decriminalisation: Anti-trafficking, Child Protection, and the Limits of Trauma-informed Efforts
Numerous laws have passed to move away from criminalising youth who trade sex. Specialised courts have also been established to support youth. Despite proponents' contention that specialised, trauma-informed courts are less punitive than typical interventions, research is limited. This article explores one specialised dependency court's efforts to assist youth ‘at risk’. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations, I argue that laws and t…
Framing the Mother Tac: The Racialised, Sexualised and Gendered Politics of Modern Slavery in Australia
Centred on the slavery trial "Crown vs. Rungnapha Kanbut" heard in Sydney, New South Wales, between 10 April and 15 May 2019, this article seeks to frame the figure of the "Mother Tac" or the "mother of contract", also called "mama tac" or "mae tac"-a term used amongst Thai migrants to describe a woman who hosts, collects debts from, and organises work for Thai migrant sex workers in their destination country. It proposes that this largely unexpl…
What's in a name
Carceral Protectionism and Multi-Professional Anti-Trafficking Human Rights Work in the Netherlands
This work explores Dutch governmental and non-governmental efforts to protect persons trafficked into the Netherlands for the purposes of forced labor. By focusing on multi-professional efforts to assist trafficked persons, this analysis discusses protective agents' roles as gatekeepers, interpreters and knowledge brokers in identifying trafficked persons and in managing their experience after the temporal moment of ‘rescue’ has come to pass. Thi…
Domestic minor sex trafficking and the detention-to-protection pipeline
Notable discursive changes are afoot with respect to individuals, particularly sex trade–involved youth in the United States. Where once they may have been profiled as juvenile offenders, they are now, thanks to widespread attention to human trafficking, provisionally viewed by law enforcement and their non-state allies as potential victims of domestic minor sex trafficking, replete with traumatic pasts and turbulent family histories that authori…
The Trafficking-Technology Nexus
Within some public policy and scholarly accounts, human trafficking is increasingly understood as a technological problem that invites collaborative anti-trafficking solutions. A growing cohort of state, non-governmental, and corporate actors in the United States have come together around the shared contention that technology functions as both a facilitator and disrupting force of trafficking, specifically sex trafficking. Despite increased atten…
Prostitution and Sex Work
Control and Protect: Collaboration, Carceral Protection, and Domestic Sex Trafficking in the United States
Control and Protect explores the meaning and significance of efforts designed to combat sex trafficking in the United States. A striking ethnographic case study of new ways in which law enforcement agents, social service providers, and nongovernmental advocates have joined forces to fight domestic sex trafficking, it reveals how these collaborations consolidate state power, resulting in carceral protectionism. This book examines how such partners…
Community-Based Responses to Negative Health Impacts of Sexual Humanitarian Anti-Trafficking Policies and the Criminalization of Sex Work and Migration in the US
System-involvement resulting from anti-trafficking interventions and the criminalization of sex work and migration results in negative health impacts on sex workers, migrants, and people with trafficking experiences. Due to their stigmatized status, sex workers and people with trafficking experiences often struggle to access affordable, unbiased, and supportive health care. This paper will use thematic analysis of qualitative data from in-depth i…
Transing Critical Criminology: A Critical Unsettling and Transformative Anti-Carceral Feminist Reframing
Framing the Mother Tac: The Racialised, Sexualised and Gendered Politics of Modern Slavery in Australia
Centred on the slavery trial "Crown vs. Rungnapha Kanbut" heard in Sydney, New South Wales, between 10 April and 15 May 2019, this article seeks to frame the figure of the "Mother Tac" or the "mother of contract", also called "mama tac" or "mae tac"-a term used amongst Thai migrants to describe a woman who hosts, collects debts from, and organises work for Thai migrant sex workers in their destination country. It proposes that this largely unexpl…
Transgender People and Human Trafficking: Intersectional Exclusion of Transgender Migrants and People of Color from Anti-trafficking Protection in the United States
International audience
Migration, sex work and trafficking: The racialized bordering politics of sexual humanitarianism
The article presents the findings of the SEXHUM project studying the impact of the different policies targeting migrant sex workers in Australia, France, New Zealand, and the United States. It draws on the concept of sexual humanitarianism, referring to how neoliberal constructions of vulnerability associated with sexual behaviour are implicated in humanitarian forms of support and control of migrant populations. Based on over three years of fiel…
Unfinished Decriminalization: The Impact of Section 19 of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 on Migrant Sex Workers’ Rights and Lives in Aotearoa New Zealand
In 2003, Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) passed the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 (PRA), which decriminalized sex work for NZ citizens and holders of permanent residency (PR) while excluding migrant sex workers (MSWs) from its protection. This is due to Section 19 (s19) of the PRA, added at the last minute against advice by the Aotearoa New Zealand Sex Workers’ Collective (NZPC) as an anti-trafficking clause. Because of s19, migrants on temporary visas …
Anti-Trafficking in the Time of Fosta/Sesta: Networked Moral Gentrification and Sexual Humanitarian Creep
Globally, sex workers have highlighted the harms that accompany anti-prostitution efforts advanced via anti-trafficking policy, and there is a growing body of social science research that has emerged documenting how anti-trafficking efforts contribute to carceral and sexual humanitarian interventions. Yet mounting evidence on the harms of anti-trafficking policies has done little to quell the passage of more laws, including policies aimed at stop…
The Afterlife of Decriminalisation: Anti-trafficking, Child Protection, and the Limits of Trauma-informed Efforts
Numerous laws have passed to move away from criminalising youth who trade sex. Specialised courts have also been established to support youth. Despite proponents' contention that specialised, trauma-informed courts are less punitive than typical interventions, research is limited. This article explores one specialised dependency court's efforts to assist youth ‘at risk’. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations, I argue that laws and t…
Racialization within Antitrafficking Interventions Targeting Migrant Sex Workers: Findings from the Sexhum Research Project in France
This article draws on the findings of the research project Sexual Humanitarianism: Migration, Sex Work, and Trafficking (SEXHUM), a study investigating migration, sex work, and human trafficking in Australia, France, New Zealand, and the US. In this article, we focus on how racialized categories are mobilized in antitrafficking practices in France. Since April 2016, the French government has enforced a prohibitionist and neo-abolitionist law crim…
Criminology (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sex work and related issues (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Sex work (8 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (7 works)