White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking

Global efforts to combat human trafficking are ubiquitous and reference particular ideas about unfreedoms, suffering, and rescue. The discourse has, however, a distinct racialized legacy that is lodged specifically in fears about "white slavery," women in prostitution and migration, and the defilement of white womanhood by the criminal and racialized Other. centers the legacies of race and racism in contemporary anti-trafficking work and examines them in greater detail.