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Introduction: Victim journeys, survivors’ voice
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Abstract
A key challenge of this book project has been to weave in and bring to the fore victims/survivors’ voice in trying to respond to the necessity for greater and better collaborative knowledge production and service design in critical modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) studies. In this respect, the co-authorship of the introduction with an international (J. Julia) and a domestic (Emily) survivor serves a few ends. Firstly, it constitutes a tangible effort to participatory knowledge production. Secondly, this experiment tends towards overcoming survivors’ voice as tokenism. A third purpose of having a co-created storytelling at the onset of the collection is of standing as a more classic introduction, and of gluing the three sections and the chapters of the volume together. Finally, the first-person storytelling aims to point to the current dearth of survivors’ participation in both knowledge- and practice-production in MSHT studies and systems. Accordingly, this introduction first travels through our collaborative victim journey, which will serve to present the three sections and 13 chapters of the volume. After, we offer a quick overview of the state-of-the-art of survivors’ participation in MSHT studies, accompanied by some self-reflective considerations on how to contribute to de-Westernise/decolonise the discourse of MSHT.
Abstract
A key challenge of this book project has been to weave in and bring to the fore victims/survivors’ voice in trying to respond to the necessity for greater and better collaborative knowledge production and service design in critical modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) studies. In this respect, the co-authorship of the introduction with an international (J. Julia) and a domestic (Emily) survivor serves a few ends. Firstly, it constitutes a tangible effort to participatory knowledge production. Secondly, this experiment tends towards overcoming survivors’ voice as tokenism. A third purpose of having a co-created storytelling at the onset of the collection is of standing as a more classic introduction, and of gluing the three sections and the chapters of the volume together. Finally, the first-person storytelling aims to point to the current dearth of survivors’ participation in both knowledge- and practice-production in MSHT studies and systems. Accordingly, this introduction first travels through our collaborative victim journey, which will serve to present the three sections and 13 chapters of the volume. After, we offer a quick overview of the state-of-the-art of survivors’ participation in MSHT studies, accompanied by some self-reflective considerations on how to contribute to de-Westernise/decolonise the discourse of MSHT.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and table vii
- List of abbreviations viii
- Notes on contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xv
- Foreword xvi
- Preface xviii
- Introduction: Victim journeys, survivors’ voice 1
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Recruiting: business and tools
- Criminal pyramid scheme: organised crime recruitment strategies 25
- Organ trafficking: a neglected aspect of modern slavery 41
- Online child sexual exploitation in the Philippines: addressing demand 60
- The role of business in the exploitation and rehabilitation of victims of modern slavery 73
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Being a victim: discourses and representations
- Trafficking on film: a critical survey 95
- Discursive representations of ‘invisible migrants’ in British social media 113
- Racialising and criminalising vulnerable migrants: the case of human trafficking and modern slavery 130
- Victims perpetrating a crime: a critique of responses to criminal exploitation and modern slavery in the UK 146
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Caring: practices and resilience
- Subject-making in ambiguous systems: trafficking aftercare in the UK and beyond 165
- Sexual exploitation: framing women’s needs and experiences 182
- Survivor support: how a values-based service can enhance access to psychological capital 200
- Imagining otherwise: art and movement as tools for recovery 218
- Monitoring and evaluating anti-trafficking measures 233
- Conclusion: Interrupting the journey 253
- Index 260
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and table vii
- List of abbreviations viii
- Notes on contributors ix
- Acknowledgements xv
- Foreword xvi
- Preface xviii
- Introduction: Victim journeys, survivors’ voice 1
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Recruiting: business and tools
- Criminal pyramid scheme: organised crime recruitment strategies 25
- Organ trafficking: a neglected aspect of modern slavery 41
- Online child sexual exploitation in the Philippines: addressing demand 60
- The role of business in the exploitation and rehabilitation of victims of modern slavery 73
-
Being a victim: discourses and representations
- Trafficking on film: a critical survey 95
- Discursive representations of ‘invisible migrants’ in British social media 113
- Racialising and criminalising vulnerable migrants: the case of human trafficking and modern slavery 130
- Victims perpetrating a crime: a critique of responses to criminal exploitation and modern slavery in the UK 146
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Caring: practices and resilience
- Subject-making in ambiguous systems: trafficking aftercare in the UK and beyond 165
- Sexual exploitation: framing women’s needs and experiences 182
- Survivor support: how a values-based service can enhance access to psychological capital 200
- Imagining otherwise: art and movement as tools for recovery 218
- Monitoring and evaluating anti-trafficking measures 233
- Conclusion: Interrupting the journey 253
- Index 260
