week 11 - the social construction of sex trafficking Flashcards
Crusade leaders identify no
Grey areas
Parties interested in social conditions enter into
Moral crusades
Moral crusades often make
Grand, unverifiable claims about the nature and prevalence of a particular social evil
The second claim they make in relation to prostitution is that it
Is a form of violence
Customers and sex traffickers are
The personification of evil and ALL mistreat their clients, which is not true
They apparently have no
Agency, so therefore they can’t possibly have any control over their working conditions
It is inappropriate to fuse these two things because they operate separately
Prostitution and trafficking
Growth of sex trafficking is
Impossible to measure
What is it called when anti-prostitution laws brought in through moral crusades make it into legislation?
Institutionalization
Instead of focusing on unfree labor, these campaigns focus on
All migration