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...
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...
‘Humanitarianized’ Development? Anti‐trafficking Reconfigured
Over the past three decades humanitarianism has broadened considerably in scope. Humanitarian aid agencies have increasingly moved beyond...
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...
Sedentary Optics: Static Anti-Trafficking and Mobile Victims
My latest publication in Current Anthropology Abstract Postpanopticism and the “mobility turn” within the social sciences provide...