Trafficked Enough? Missing Bodies, Migrant Labour Exploitation, and the Classification of Trafficking Victims in Singapore
Trafficked Enough? Missing Bodies, Migrant Labour Exploitation, and the Classification of Trafficking Victims in Singapore
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作者：
S. Yea
最近，一些重要的地理学研究提请人们注意表达种族主义或新殖民主义想象的弱势或受剥削群体的形象，包括出于法律的目的对群体进行分类和定性时所涉及的地理想象。就弱势移民群体而言，这种做法可被用来制造区别，为社会空间排斥或遏制提供理由，因此往往对必须应对分类后果的真实的人产生深远影响。该文件建立在这股调查，探讨周围的人口贩运受害者和分类的影响，临时劳工移民在新加坡到贩运和非贩运类别。我认为，在新加坡的情况下，政府在维持目前的劳动力/移民制度的利益是同样重要的种族主义和新殖民主义的想象力，并与后者相交，以富有成效的方式将弱势移民分为贩运和非贩运的类别。关键词：人口贩运语言：en
Critical geographical research has recently drawn attention to representations of vulnerable or exploited groups that articulate racist or neo-colonial imaginations, including where these geographical imaginations are implicated in the classification and characterisation of groups for legal purposes. In the case of vulnerable groups of migrants such practices can be invoked to create distinctions that justify the socio-spatial exclusion or containment, thus oftentimes having profound implications for real people who must manoeuvre the consequences of classification. The paper builds on this strand of inquiry by exploring the imaginaries surrounding trafficking victimhood and the implications of classification for temporary labour migrants in Singapore into trafficked and non-trafficked categories. I argue that in the Singaporean context government interest in maintaining the current labour/migration regime is equally as significant as racist and neo-colonial imaginations and intersect with the latter in productive ways to sort vulnerable migrants into categories of trafficked and non-trafficked. Keywords: Human trafficking Language: en