Abstract
Spectacular stories of life in trafficking saturate the media, politicians’ speeches, and non-governmental organisations’ fundraising campaigns. With so much focus on stories of brutality, or of dramatic escapes and rescues, there has been little attention to what happens after trafficking. This special issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review shines a light on trafficking outcomes—both for those who have been labelled by state actors or the NGO sector as trafficked, as well as those whose exploitation garnered no legal protections or service provision. The volume puts centre stage the challenges and successes after trafficking that largely have unfolded off stage. It points to contradictions, slippages, missed opportunities, and failings.
Highlights
Spectacular stories of life in trafficking saturate the media, politicians‘ speeches, and non-governmental organisations‘ fundraising campaigns
With so much focus on stories of brutality, or of dramatic escapes and rescues, there has been little attention to what happens after trafficking. This special issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review shines a light on trafficking outcomes—both for those who have been labelled by state actors or the NGO sector as trafficked, as well as those whose exploitation garnered no legal protections or service provision
Regardless of the context, this special issue shows that by taking back control of one‘s life, and tending to ordinary tasks and chores of resettlement—what Brennan termseveryday lifework‘—formerly trafficked persons move beyond the extraordinary cruelty of forced labour.[1]
Summary
The volume puts centre stage the challenges and successes after trafficking that largely have unfolded off stage It points to contradictions, slippages, missed opportunities, and failings. Regardless of the context, this special issue shows that by taking back control of one‘s life, and tending to ordinary tasks and chores of resettlement—what Brennan termseveryday lifework‘—formerly trafficked persons move beyond the extraordinary cruelty of forced labour.[1] As some trafficking survivors insist, and as the title of Brennan‘s book Life Interrupted emphasises, trafficking is a particular bracketed time in people‘s lives, an interruption of sorts.[2] What they do after, on their own terms, and under their own control, is their life This volume examines this time, their time, as they move forward with their lives
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