Date of Award
Fall 12-16-2015
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Women's Studies
First Advisor
Amira Jarmakani
Second Advisor
Susan Talburt
Third Advisor
Julie Kubala
Abstract
The creation, implementation, and ratification of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), as well as the growth of parallel private initiatives against human trafficking, have emerged from a neoliberal political agenda that focuses on redefinitions of labor, sexuality, securitization of humanitarian campaigns, and immigration policies. In this thesis, I explore some of the meanings and effects of those redefinitions by focusing on the affective registers of pity and panic in their ability to mobilize publics toward restrictive forms of assistance to real and imaginary victims of the so-called phenomenon of “modern-day slavery.”
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/7544448
Recommended Citation
Ramirez-Rodriguez, Juliana, "From Panic to Pity: Circuits and Circulations of the Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Crusade." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2015.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/7544448