The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong
The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong
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完美的生意？
DOI：
10.1355/sj29-1h
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Sverre Molland
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作者：
Sverre Molland
对于那些处于人口贩卖链条高端的人来说，性交易是一项诱人而有利可图的业务：女孩的供应是稳定的，运营成本很低，执法部门的干预很弱，甚至根本不存在。反贩运组织和政府在与涉及贸易、劳工、卖淫、移民和国界的商业活动的道德-政治层面作斗争时，通常会采用这种市场的供需隐喻。但是他们有多聪明呢？性交易真的是完美的生意吗？这本发人深省的新书审视了泰老边境的人贩子、受害者和贩运活动分子之间的社会世界和相互关系。它探讨了当地如何调和国际法律概念、援助组织的官僚处方和全球发展意识形态与性交易的现实。作者斯韦雷·莫兰（Sverre Molland）从酒吧和妓院的无数谈话和采访中收集了内部人士对招募和性交易的看法，这一观点使有组织犯罪迫使或诱骗妇女卖淫的流行刻板印象变得复杂。莫兰细致入微的人种志展示了一幅更加多样化的画面：朋友招募朋友，家人帮助亲戚。招聘者将她的行为合理化，认为是对一位乡村朋友的好处或恩惠；妓女和酒吧老板之间的关系被亲属关系和家族隐喻所掩盖。湄公河地区的性工作遵循着互助和义务的主顾文化脚本，这使得很难区分受害者和贩运者。Molland的研究阐明了招聘者的方法和动机，以及受害者的经济激励和困境。完美的生意？这是第一本超越通常关注移民和性交易的书，探索反贩运的制度背景。报告的作者本人曾是联合国反贩运项目的顾问，他提出了一个关键问题，即日益全球化的发展援助部门如何应对更准确地说可能是人类流动的域外发展挑战。他的书将为人类学、性别研究和人文地理学的学生和学者，以及对发展政策中最具争议的问题之一感兴趣的任何人提供见解。
For those at the high end of the trafficking chain, the sex trade is an alluring and lucrative business: the supply of girls is constant, the costs of operations are low, and interference from law enforcement is weak to non-existent. Anti-trafficking organisations and governments commonly appropriate such market metaphors of supply and demand as they struggle with the moral-political dimensions of a business involving trade, labour, prostitution, migration, and national borders. But how apt are they? Is the sex trade really the perfect business? This provocative new book examines the social worlds and interrelationships of traffickers, victims, and trafficking activists along the Thai-Lao border. It explores local efforts to reconcile international legal concepts, the bureaucratic prescriptions of aid organisations, and global development ideologies with on-the-ground realities of sexual commerce. Author Sverre Molland provides an insider's view of recruitment and sex commerce gleaned from countless conversations and interviews in bars and brothels--a view that complicates popular stereotypes of women forced or duped into prostitution by organised crime. Molland's fine-grained ethnography shows a much more varied picture of friends recruiting friends, and families helping relatives. A recruiter rationalises her act as a benefit or favour to a village friend; relationships between prostitutes and bar owners are cloaked in kin terms and familial metaphors. Sex work in the Mekong region follows patron-client cultural scripts about mutual help and obligation, which makes distinguishing the victims from the traffickers difficult. Molland's research illuminates the methods and motivations of recruiters as well as the economic incentives and predicaments of victims. The Perfect Business? is the first book to go beyond the usual focus on migrants and sex commerce to explore the institutional context of anti-trafficking. Its author, himself a former advisor for a United Nations anti-trafficking project, raises crucial questions about how an increasingly globalised development aid sector responds to what might more accurately be described as an extraterritorial development challenge of human mobility. His book will offer insights to students and scholars in anthropology, gender studies, and human geography, as well as anyone interested in one of the most controversial issues of development policy.