• DOI:10.1177/03058298040330020101
Corpus ID: 26554777

The Perverse Politics of Four-Letter Words: Risk and Pity in the Securitisation of Human Trafficking

@article{Aradau2004ThePP,
  title={The Perverse Politics of Four-Letter Words: Risk and Pity in the Securitisation of Human Trafficking},
  author={Claudia Aradau},
  journal={Millennium - Journal of International Studies},
  year={2004},
  volume={33},
  pages={251 - 277}
}

Claudia Aradau

Published 2004

Sociology

Millennium - Journal of International Studies

This article unpacks two constructions of human trafficking: as a security threat and as a humanitarian problem. Restricting its focus to trafficking of women for the sex industry, the article highlights the double identification of these women as illegal migrants and victims, prostitutes and suffering bodies. How are these schizophrenic identifications possible? An analysis of the security and humanitarian articulations as governmental interventions in Michel Foucault's sense of the term… CONTINUE READING

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