Abstract
Rewriting the Victim: Dramatization as Research in Thailand’s Anti-Trafficking Movement
Highlights
When we—members of the privileged West—see her picture, we pity her
After an accomplished career as an award-winning musical composer and playwright, Kamler returned to graduate school to pursue research on Thailand that would harness her artistic talents with field-based research as a vehicle to communicate human rights concerns in the region
This book is a welcome addition to a growing number of critical texts examining the discursive constructions and corporeal effects the global anti-trafficking movement has on migrant sex workers
Summary
When we—members of the privileged West—see her picture, we pity her. We can’t help it. Kamler’s riveting book on the ways the anti-trafficking movement ‘flattens’ (Parreñas, 2011: 6) the complex realities of migrant sex workers from Burma in northern Thailand.
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