Capital Accrual and Constraints
Domestic Sex Trafficking Victims’ Negotiation of Vicarious and Feminized Capital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12143444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natalie Thorburn (0000-0002-7218-6460, University of Auckland, corresponding author), Liz Beddoe (0000-0001-7953-7369, University of Auckland) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-79 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Affilia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0886-1099 • E-ISSN: 1552-3020 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0886109920913337 |
| OpenAlex | W3015012277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
Domestic sex trafficking has yet to appear on the policy agenda in Aotearoa New Zealand, and yet to be met with a law enforcement response. Accordingly, we have minimal knowledge about the contexts in which sex trafficking is perpetrated and what victims’ experiences involve. This article focuses specifically on the attainment and negotiation of social capital by victims whose access to traditional capital is at least partially restricted by their social and familial contexts. Sixteen victims of domestic sex trafficking participated in semistructured interviews. The data were analyzed using an adapted version of Clanindin and Connelly’s (2000) three-dimensional structure of narrative analysis. Three of the themes emerging from this are discussed here; namely abuse and mistreatment in early life, the negotiation of survival within the trafficking context, and sexuality as a bargaining tool. We argue that victims’ access to traditional mechanisms of social capital accrual may be precluded by the multiple sites of gendered disadvantage that collude to entrap victims in a subordinate and exploited position. However, to negotiate their continued survival despite the constraints to their agency, they appear to access both vicarious physical capital and feminized (and usually sexualised) capital by instrumentalizing their sexual appeal or prowess and the protection of the subjectively more powerful male “partner.”
Agency (philosophy · Aotearoa · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Domestic violence · Human sexuality · Negotiation · Poison control · Political science · Social capital · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology
The Body and Social Theory
Qualitative Data Analysis
Exploratory review of route-specific, gendered, and age-graded dynamics of exploitation
Differentiation Among Types of Intimate Partner Violence
Entrapment and Enmeshment Schemes Used by Sex Traffickers
Knowledge and control
Distinction
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
Beyond Methodology
Young People and Sexual Exploitation
The Logic of Practice
An Exploratory Study of Adolescent Pimping Relationships
The International Sexual Trafficking of Women and Children
Bodies that matter
Constructing Qualitatively Derived Theory
Gender-Based Violence and Young Homeless Women
Appropriating Bourdieu
Reworking Bourdieu's 'Capital
It's Not Only for the Money
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |