Trafficking Rhetoric Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery

"Human trafficking has generated intense global concern, with stories of sex slavery and images of women forced into prostitution so persuasive that states have raced to respond ahead of empirical data and clear definitions of the crime. In Trafficking Rhetoric, Annie Hill analyzes the entangle...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hill, Annie author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus, OH : The Ohio State University Press 2024.
Colección:New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009851318306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The torque of state veneration and state violence
  • Speculative figures : the rhetorical material of trafficking estimates
  • Anti-Blackness by analogy : human trafficking as modern-day slavery
  • Glaring whiteness : trafficking visual rhetoric and tropes of blindness
  • "A really hostile environment for illegal migrants" : state violence, misery, and immobility
  • Conclusion: The disappearing right to remain.