Freeing the Modern Slaves, One Click at a Time: Theorising human trafficking, modern slavery, and technology
Freeing the Modern Slaves, One Click at a Time: Theorising human trafficking, modern slavery, and technology
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DOI：
10.14197/atr.201220142
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发表时间：
2020-04-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Segrave, Marie
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作者：
Milivojevic, Sanja;Moore, Heather;Segrave, Marie
本文分析了人口贩卖、现代奴役和信息通信技术之间的关系。它考察了技术贩运关系的历史，并指出了过去二十年来反贩运话语的一些关键进展。它概述了在贩运/奴隶制背景下，技术如何被视为问题的一部分和解决方案的一部分，并强调了这种发展对一系列行动者的影响，特别是潜在的受害者、非政府组织和民族国家。我们认为，技术奴役与人口贩运之间的联系虽然往往难以捉摸，但却可以作为强有力的叙事和政策制定者，推动现有挑战，并在打击人口贩运的背景下创造新的紧张点。我们批判性地分析这些紧张点，并动摇他们的一些基本假设。在结论中，我们强调需要严格的经验证据，认为更强有力的学术参与技术在实现和破坏剥削方面的作用是必不可少的。我们还指出，必须确保技术不会分散对解决剥削和滥用根源的注意力。
This paper analyses relations between human trafficking, modern slavery, and information communication technology. It looks at the history of the technology-trafficking nexus and flags some key advances in the counter-trafficking discourse in the last two decades. It provides an overview of how technology has been framed as both a part of the problem and part of the solution in the trafficking/slavery context and emphasises the impact of such developments on a range of actors, in particular, potential victims, NGOs, and the nation state. We suggest that the technology-slavery/trafficking connections, while often elusive, act as potent narrative and policy setters that can advance existing challenges and create new points of tension in the counter-trafficking context. We critically analyse these points of tension and destabilise some of their underpinning assumptions. In the conclusion, we highlight the need for rigorous empirical evidence, arguing that a more robust scholarly engagement with the role of technology in enabling and disrupting exploitation is essential. We also point to the importance of ensuring that technology is not a distraction from addressing the root causes of exploitation and abuse.