Abstract
This chapter explores the contemporary experience of Jamaican sex workers
against two visions of slavery’s wrong. It argues that because it reads
contract as freedom, current anti- traffi cking discourse is forced to deny
the ethnographic realities of phenomena it dubs “modern slavery.” A focus
on what it means to live in the wake of racial slavery affords a more useful
lens through which to analyze the restraints on freedom experienced by
Jamaican sex workers today.
against two visions of slavery’s wrong. It argues that because it reads
contract as freedom, current anti- traffi cking discourse is forced to deny
the ethnographic realities of phenomena it dubs “modern slavery.” A focus
on what it means to live in the wake of racial slavery affords a more useful
lens through which to analyze the restraints on freedom experienced by
Jamaican sex workers today.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | White Supremacy, Racism and The Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking |
| Editors | Kamala Kempadoo, Elena Shih |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Francis/Routledge |
| Chapter | 16 |
| Pages | 237-253 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003162124 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-367-75349-8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Sept 2022 |
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Keywords
- sex work
- trafficking
- race
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