Trafficking and Sex Work

Mathilde Darley is a CNRS researcher at the CESDIP (Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Criminal Justice, France). Her research works deal with border control, migrants’ detention, police work, gender, prostitution, and human trafficking. Together with Rebecca Pates (University of Leipzig, Germany), she coordinated the ANR-DFG research project ProsCrim on trafficking in human beings in France and Germany from 2014 to 2018 (ANR-13-FRAL-0014-01). Her recent publications include "Policing and Gender in France" (with J. Gauthier, 2021); "Caring for Victims of Human Trafficking: Staging and Bridging Cultural Differences in Germany and France" (with A. Dölemeyer, 2020); "Sexe, droit et migrations. La traite des êtres humains saisie par les institutions" (2021).

Introduction

PART I: Making Trafficking Come True: Counting, Expertising, and Classifying

1 How to Establish the Reality of Trafficking in Women? The Selective Disqualification of Sources by the Special Body of Experts of the League of Nations (1924–1927)

2 Sex Trafficking and “Reality Tourism” in Thailand: New Experts

3 From Social Experience to Cultural Expertise: the Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Identifying Sex Trafficking Victims in France

4 Negotiating the Territories of Anti-Trafficking Efforts: the “Unlikely Cooperation” Between Police Officers and Social Workers in Germany

5 “There’s No Place Like Home”: “Return Policies” for Human Trafficking Victims in Bulgaria

6 Assessing Damages for Sexual Exploitation: the Compensation of Trafficking Victims in France

PART II: For the Sake of the Victims: Criminalizing Sex Work, Gendering Public Order

7 French Abolitionism: From Eradicating Regulationism to Promoting Social Care

8 What Sex Workers Think About Victimhood, Violence, and Exploitation: Insights From a Collaborative Study Prioritizing Sex Workers’ Voices

9 Gender Violence and Violence Against Sex Workers: Irreconcilable Perspectives

10 Policing Sex Work, Producing Gender: Gendered Division of Labor and Management of Sexual Illegalisms

11 Pimps on Trial

PART III: Think Globally, Act Locally: Anti-Trafficking Policies, From Universal Humanitarian Discourse to National Border Controls

12 Migration and Security: The Danger of Anti-Trafficking Heritage in Brazil

13 Fighting Human Trafficking Away From a Human Rights Frame: the Effects of Anti-Trafficking Regimes in Brazil

14 Trafficking Prevention for Workforce Retention Categorizing “Women at Risk” in Laos

15 Red Lights for Prostitution: Policing the Purchase of Sex in Norway

16 Judging Sexual Exploitation: a “Cultural” Crime?