Trafficking in Human Beings for Sexual Exploitation and Media Discourses

Júlia Tomás

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Trafficking in Human Beings for Sexual Exploitation and Media Discourses

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Page Range:: 75–85

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848884243_007

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Trafficking in human beings has been increasing these last years due to, amongst others, escalating international migration, growing poverty, gender discrimination, lack of education, corruption and armed conflicts. This crime includes various forms of abuse such as sexual exploitation, forced labour, servitude, organ removal, forced marriage, forced begging, illegal adoption or forced participation in armed combat and the commission of crime. The International Labour Organisation estimates that 20.9 million people, including an estimated 5.5 million children, are victims of forced labour globally. The international protocols on combating trafficking in human beings highlight a war against organised crime through punishment and immigration control policies. Though, by emphasising the criminal activity, international policies cast a shadow on the issue of forced labour itself. Consequently, there is a lack of laws and projects on the protection of victims. Therefore, victims are generally first considered as illegal immigrants leading them to social exclusion. Regarding sexual exploitation, the problem clearly resides in the fact that fighting trafficking in human beings is often conflated with fighting prostitution. In many countries the boundary between both activities is unclear. As a consequence, many sex workers – and especially immigrant prostitutes – face violent law enforcement operations, raids and arrests. Currently mass media not only fails to help detecting victims but also contribute to the marginalisation of sex workers. Due to the growing visibility of human trafficking in the media, it is important to critically analyse the current discourses on the issue and to highlight certain social representations and stereotypes. This presentation has three objectives: first, to disseminate information about trafficking in human beings; second, to expose sexual and gender discrimination as well as migration issues disseminated through mass media in the context of human trafficking; and thirdly, to offer some recommendations for an ethical communication on the subject.

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Sexuality, Oppression and Human Rights

ISBN:: 9781848884243

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 01 Jan 2015

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- Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
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- Social Sciences
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