Abstract
Southeast Asia has been constantly identified as a trafficking hub since the 1980s. This chapter offers a review of the regional status of human trafficking, highlighting the major economic, social and geopolitical factors that make ASEAN prone to this challenge. It then outlines the main actors and their networks that champion the diffusion of the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (TIP Protocol) to ASEAN. The near-unanimous embrace of the TIP Protocol in the world has not proved sufficient to settle the debate between competing narratives surrounding trafficking issues and their countermeasures. Within Southeast Asia, there is also a continuing debate related to the different ways of approaching the phenomenon. Namely, whether trafficking is an issue of national security, labour, health, or human rights. It is necessary to understand how various actors with sometimes contradictory goals and different degrees of social, economic, and political power are contributing to the design and setup of regional architecture on human trafficking.
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