Editorial: Anti-Trafficking Education: Sites of care, knowledge, and power

This article introduces a Special Issue on anti-trafficking education. The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the sites for anti-trafficking education and the range of educators who shape how the public and institutions understand and respond to human trafficking. Thus, there is a need to analyse the formalised and informalised practices that facilitate teaching and learning about trafficking. We argue that anti-trafficking education can perpetuate misinformation and myths about trafficking as well as legitimise carceral systems that lead to dehumanisation and violence. At the same time, critical approaches to teaching trafficking can encourage and inform endeavours to create structural change, social justice, and individual empowerment. We conclude that if the expansion of anti-trafficking education is divorced from longstanding movements for equity, then it runs the risk of teaching about trafficking while upholding practices and systems of oppression, exclusion, and expropriation, as well as diverting attention and resources from global work toward social and structural change

Research and Publishing during COVID-19

This discussion will explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on scholarly research and publishing. Travel restrictions, retracted funding, delayed or halted projects, and an increase in caretaker and other personal responsibilities at home compound to create unprecedented challenges for producing and publishing research. Early indicators show women, those with significant unpaid care responsibilities, and members of minoritized groups have been disproportionately impacted. For graduate students and early career faculty who depend on research and publication for promotion and tenure, the stakes are especially high. Join our panelists for a conversation about the how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the research landscape. Watch the video to see the discussion. Click on the download button for a list of readings and resources.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/inter_inclusion/1001/thumbnail.jp

Excerpt from Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the US

“Witnessing Legal Narratives, Court Performances, and Translations of Peruvian Domestic Work” from Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S. by Annie Isabel Fukushima. Copyright © 2019 Stanford University Press

Asian and Latina Migrants in the United States and the Invisible / Visible Paradigm of Human Trafficking

Asian and Latina Migrants in the United States and the Invisible / Visible Paradigm of Human Trafficking addresses a critical question: who is seen as trafficked? And who is rendered invisible? How the trafficked person has come to matter in the 21st century is a function of the diversity of discourses that extends beyond the legal definition of human trafficking. In order to make sense of "who" is visible as a trafficked person necessitates a method that is interdisciplinary. Narratives produce who is categorized as the trafficked, the trafficker, and the anti-trafficker. Structural and cultural factors solidify categories of human trafficking, further perpetuating what I refer to as an invisible / visible paradigm of human trafficking. I develop an understanding of human trafficking as an invisible / visible paradigm of human trafficking in order to enable a nuanced critique of the erasures that currently exist in narratives of exploitation and labor migration. To address who is visible and invisible when trafficked I examine comparatively Asian and Latinas trafficked into the United States.Asian and Latina Migrants offers an interdisciplinary approach. The methodology is informed by sociological methods of participation and participant observation as a scholar activist (2005 - present). Between 2009 and 2011 I worked with over 70 organizations and advocated for and / or assessed over one hundred human trafficking cases as a caseworker, programs coordinator and technical assistant provider to anti-trafficking organizations. The fieldwork enabled me to examine how victims of human trafficking are constituted. The legal and social imagining of human trafficking manifests in legal systems, in the representation of the policy and legal cases in the media and in campaigns. And human trafficking is continually redefined by discourses of freedom, labor migration, and sexual economies. Therefore, I also employ a cultural studies lens to unpack the discourse of human trafficking. Who this person is inextricably linked to gendered and raced perceptions of illegality and victimhood.Asian and Latina Migrants examines transnational labor that bridges Asia-Pacific to the Americas. Chapter two maps the scholarly discourse about human trafficking as intertwined with discourses about freedom, labor and migration, and sexual economies. Chapter three describes the method of Asian and Latina Migrants as drawing upon sociology, legal analysis, and cultural studies. Chapters four through six offers a qualitative analysis of Asian and Latinas trafficked through homo-social relations (women trafficking women). In particular, I study Koreans, Filipinas, and a Peruvian trafficked into domestic work, servitude, sexual slavery, and massage parlors. Chapters four through six focus on feminized labor (domestic worker and sexual economies) and exploitation. Chapter seven concludes with situating resistance and human trafficking; in spite of the violence as systemic and naturalized, survivors are always resisting

Asian and Latina Migrants in the United States and the Invisible / Visible Paradigm of Human Trafficking

Asian and Latina Migrants in the United States and the Invisible / Visible Paradigm of Human Trafficking addresses a critical question: who is seen as trafficked? And who is rendered invisible? How the trafficked person has come to matter in the 21st century is a function of the diversity of discourses that extends beyond the legal definition of human trafficking. In order to make sense of "who" is visible as a trafficked person necessitates a method that is interdisciplinary. Narratives produce who is categorized as the trafficked, the trafficker, and the anti-trafficker. Structural and cultural factors solidify categories of human trafficking, further perpetuating what I refer to as an invisible / visible paradigm of human trafficking. I develop an understanding of human trafficking as an invisible / visible paradigm of human trafficking in order to enable a nuanced critique of the erasures that currently exist in narratives of exploitation and labor migration. To address who is visible and invisible when trafficked I examine comparatively Asian and Latinas trafficked into the United States.Asian and Latina Migrants offers an interdisciplinary approach. The methodology is informed by sociological methods of participation and participant observation as a scholar activist (2005 - present). Between 2009 and 2011 I worked with over 70 organizations and advocated for and / or assessed over one hundred human trafficking cases as a caseworker, programs coordinator and technical assistant provider to anti-trafficking organizations. The fieldwork enabled me to examine how victims of human trafficking are constituted. The legal and social imagining of human trafficking manifests in legal systems, in the representation of the policy and legal cases in the media and in campaigns. And human trafficking is continually redefined by discourses of freedom, labor migration, and sexual economies. Therefore, I also employ a cultural studies lens to unpack the discourse of human trafficking. Who this person is inextricably linked to gendered and raced perceptions of illegality and victimhood.Asian and Latina Migrants examines transnational labor that bridges Asia-Pacific to the Americas. Chapter two maps the scholarly discourse about human trafficking as intertwined with discourses about freedom, labor and migration, and sexual economies. Chapter three describes the method of Asian and Latina Migrants as drawing upon sociology, legal analysis, and cultural studies. Chapters four through six offers a qualitative analysis of Asian and Latinas trafficked through homo-social relations (women trafficking women). In particular, I study Koreans, Filipinas, and a Peruvian trafficked into domestic work, servitude, sexual slavery, and massage parlors. Chapters four through six focus on feminized labor (domestic worker and sexual economies) and exploitation. Chapter seven concludes with situating resistance and human trafficking; in spite of the violence as systemic and naturalized, survivors are always resisting

VIII bienal ASAB

La Bienal ASAB es una muestra expositiva que se realiza desde el año 2003 en el recinto de la Sala de Exposiciones ASAB. Es un evento artístico que se propone localizar y documentar los más recientes debates del arte contemporáneo, su relación con los contextos locales y sus repercusiones en las realidades globales. Esta octava versión de la Bienal se realiza en conjunto con el Proyecto Tiempos Migratorios, propuesto por el Instituto de sujetos (Im)posibles, dirigido por Dalida María Benfeld. Esta colaboración ha sido posible por la complementariedad de los objetivos de la bienal con los del mencionado proyecto. En este sentido, es evidente la necesidad que tenemos hoy de comprender el contexto histórico y el presente actual de los fujos múltiples de la cultura, los objetos y las ideologías que atraviesan los países del Norte y del Sur global. Así mismo, es importante indagar por las dimensiones de género, raza, nacionalidad o clase que determinan las acciones políticas y las formas de producción de subjetividad de los migrantes y/o desplazados. También, la dimensión del cambio global del clima es una presencia espectral que que se anuncia a través de “la natura” y sus catástrofes. La des-naturalización que es necesaria para entender la naturaleza es una de las metodologías paradójicas que nos enfrentan. Estas dimensiones que son el resultado de la reconfguración del orden mundial mediante la demarcación de nuevas fronteras, nuevas guerras, y nuevas violencias que reactualizan las violencias antiguas de todo orden y las injusticias que les son concomitantes, se hacen visibles como las versiones contemporáneas de la colonialidad epistémica, política, estética, ambiental, bio-social, de raza y de género.The ASAB Biennial is an exhibition that has been held since 2003 in the ASAB Exhibition Hall. It is an artistic event that aims to locate and document the most recent debates in contemporary art, its relationship with local contexts and its repercussions on global realities. This eighth version of the Biennial is carried out in conjunction with the Migratory Times Project, proposed by the Institute of (Im)possible Subjects, directed by Dalida María Benfeld. This collaboration has been made possible by the complementarity of the biennial's objectives with those of the aforementioned project. In this sense, the need we have today to understand the historical context and the current present of the multiple flows of culture, objects and ideologies that cross the countries of the global North and South is evident. Likewise, it is important to investigate the dimensions of gender, race, nationality or class that determine the political actions and forms of production of subjectivity of migrants and/or displaced persons. Also, the dimension of global climate change is a spectral presence that announces itself through "nature" and its catastrophes. The denaturation that is necessary to understand nature is one of the paradoxical methodologies that confront us. These dimensions, which are the result of the reconfiguration of the world order through the demarcation of new borders, new wars, and new violences that update the old violences of all kinds and the injustices that are concomitant to them, become visible as contemporary versions of epistemic, political, aesthetic, environmental, biosocial, race and gender coloniality.Bogot