Anti-Trafficking Rhetoric and the Making of a Global Apartheid

Nandita Sharma
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This essay critically examines the historical and contemporary discursive practices of anti-trafficking campaigns. I argue that such campaigns within the global North, often led by feminists, constitute the moral reform arm of contemporary anti-immigrant politics that targets negatively racialized migrants. As in the past, current campaigns collude with a state-backed international security agenda aimed at criminalizing self-determined migrations of people who have ever-less access to legal channels of migration. I argue that only by recognizing the agency, however constrained, of illegalized migrants can we come to understand how processes of capitalist globalization and the consequent effects of dislocation and dispersal shape the mobility of illegalized migrants. Within the current global circuits of capital, goods, and people, I argue that along with a call to end practices of displacement, a demand to eliminate immigration controls is necessary if feminists are to act in solidarity with the dispossessed in their search for new livelihoods and homes.
反贩运言论与全球种族隔离的形成
本文批判性地考察了反贩运运动的历史和当代话语实践。我认为,全球北方的此类运动通常由女权主义者领导,构成了当代反移民政治的道德改革力量,其目标是负面的种族化移民。与过去一样,当前的运动与国家支持的国际安全议程相勾结,旨在将那些越来越难以获得合法移民渠道的人的自主移民定为犯罪。我认为,只有认识到非法移民的中介作用,无论其受到怎样的约束,我们才能理解资本主义全球化进程以及随之而来的错位和分散的影响是如何塑造非法移民的流动性的。在当前资本、商品和人员的全球循环中,我认为,如果女权主义者要与寻找新生计和家园的被剥夺者团结一致,除了呼吁结束流离失所的做法外,还必须要求取消移民控制。
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