Sex trafficking by consent? Andean padrinazgo, illegal mining in Amazonia, and state intervention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2285292 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Shepherd (0000-0003-2004-9154, Australian National University, corresponding author), Carmen Luisa Barrantes (Terre des Hommes) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-20 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1935-4932 • E-ISSN: 1935-4940 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jlca.12651 |
| OpenAlex | W4319787753 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Rising gold prices have led to the expansion of illegal gold mining in Peru's southwestern Amazon region. This is accompanied by an increase in sex trafficking of Indigenous girls and women from the southern Andes. This article focuses on the emerging economic and cultural connections that span Andean and Amazonian mining and sex trafficking migration in the region. The notion of precarity is applied to assess victims' agency within a racialized, neoliberal, informal labor market at the fringes of global capitalism. In tracing the trajectory of trafficked adolescents from highlands to lowlands and, in some cases, into state-run shelters, the role of padrinazgo (patronage of godparents) is explored. It is argued that trafficked subjects' choices are circumscribed by padrinazgo-type relationships with traffickers, according to which they pursue a 'preferred precarity' across competing existential, vocational, and subjective states
Agency (philosophy · Amazon rainforest · Capitalism · Criminology · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Indigenous · Informal sector · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Ecology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |