What Happened to Sex Trafficking? The New Moral Panic of Men, Boys and Fish in the Mekong Region
My latest paper in Sojourn. Abstract below. Activists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the international media have repeatedly...
On trafficking survivors: biolegitimacy and multiplications of life
My latest paper published in Dialectical Anthropology. Abstract below: Human trafficking has become a key site for intervention in global...
Is anti-trafficking dead?
I will attempt to answer this question at ANU's Migration and Social-Cultural Change Workshop. For further details about the event can be...
Migration Conferences, Europe
June will be a busy month for me with three migration-related events scheduled in Europe where I will discuss my recent safe migration...
Book review: Capitalism Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone
I recently came across this book by Stephen Campbell which examines migration and labour precarity in Thailand. The book is excellent and...
Hospitality within hostility: safe migration management in the Mekong
I will be chairing a panel on Knowledge, power and the governance of public policy tomorrow morning at the American Anthropology...
‘Humanitarianized’ Development? Anti‐trafficking Reconfigured
Over the past three decades humanitarianism has broadened considerably in scope. Humanitarian aid agencies have increasingly moved beyond...
Brokered Safety: Labour Recruitment and Migration Assistance in the Mekong Region
On 14 August I have the great honour to present parts of my research on safe migration at the National University of Singapore (NUS). For...
Beyond anti‐trafficking? Rethinking migration management in Asia
ANU has recently published "Paradigm Shift - People Movements" - a selection of short essays from ANU colleagues on migration related...
Sydney Ideas - Beyond Trafficking and Modern Slavery?
I am honoured to take part in a keynote panel this Wednesday at tge University of Sydney which will consider discourses of trafficking...