America Will Not Tolerate Slave Traders
Counter-Trafficking Policies and US Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6409984 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Risley (0000-0002-5491-134X, Rhodes College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 213-238 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-7732 • E-ISSN: 1540-9473 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1554477x.2015.1019278 |
| OpenAlex | W1573747035 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
The US government has implemented an ambitious set of policies designed to combat human trafficking and sex trafficking in women and girls in particular. This article argues that anti-trafficking discourse and policy can be understood as a project to sustain and strengthen US power. This power has been wielded through the use of foreign aid, which influences the actions of both state and non-state actors overseas. Existing policies reinforce unilateralism and executive-branch dominance. Policymakers have also used gender strategically to moralize their actions and assert global leadership on this issue. Gender is thus deployed to serve US interests
Criminology · Dominance (genetics · Economics · Foreign policy · Government (linguistics · Human trafficking · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Set (abstract data type · Sex trafficking · Sociology · State (computer science · Unilateralism · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Sex work and related issues
Maneuvers
Sex at the Margins
Terrorist Assemblages
Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism
Running from the Rescuers
Competing claims of victimhood? Foreign and domestic victims of trafficking in the United States
Keeping the Home Front Burning
The Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid
Gender Violence And Hegemonic Projects
US Sex Trafficking, Women's Human Rights and the Politics of Representation
Orientalism and ‘saving’ US state identity after 9/11
Carceral Protectionism and Multi-Professional Anti-Trafficking Human Rights Work in the Netherlands
Veiled references
Contested Bodies
Feminist Reactions to the Contemporary Security Regime
What's in a name
The problem of human trafficking in the U.S
Interest Groups and the Development of the U.S. Congress's Response to Human Trafficking
Interpreting the U.S. Human Trafficking Debate Through the Lens of Symbolic Politics
Soft power
Terrorist Assemblages
"The Sexual Politics of the "New Abolitionism
Feminists, Queers and Critics
A Poverty of Imagination
Trafficking, Migration, and the Law
The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |