Trafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery by A

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"A critical examination of the UK's antitrafficking agenda that exposes-through analysis of official estimates, policy papers, NGO reports, news stories, and awareness campaigns-the state's rescue mission as actually being an anti-immigration project intended to preserve the UK as an Anglo-white space"--

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Human trafficking has generated intense global concern, with stories of sex slavery and images of women forced into prostitution so persuasive that states have raced to respond ahead of empirical data and clear definitions of the crime. In Trafficking Rhetoric, Annie Hill analyzes the entanglement of state veneration and state violence by tracking how the United Kingdom points to the alleged crimes of others in order to celebrate itself and conceal its own aggression. Hill compares the UK's acclaimed rescue approach to human trafficking with its hostile approach to migration, arguing that they are two sides of the same coin-one that relies on rhetorical constructions of "trafficked women" and "illegal migrants" to materialize the UK as an Anglo-white space. Drawing from official estimates, policy papers, NGO reports, news stories, and awareness campaigns and situating them in the broader EU context, Hill accounts for why the UK's antitrafficking agenda emerged with such rhetorical force in the early twenty-first century. Trafficking Rhetoric reframes controversies over labor, citizenship, and migration while challenging the continued traction of race-baiting and gender bias in determining who has the right to live, work, and belong in the nation.

Author Biography

Annie Hill is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin and Affiliate in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, and the LGBTQ Studies Program.

Review

"Trafficking Rhetoric considers the rarely studied rhetoric of policy and its relationship to popular media campaigns. Hill's readings connect race, gender, and nation to trace how antitrafficking rhetoric exposes British anxieties and racism around what it means to be British." --Rebecca Dingo, author of Networking Arguments: Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing"Hill demonstrates how major UK antitrafficking campaigns hinged on limited, if not biased, reports that conflated foreign women with prostitutes, and both with victims of trafficking, to justify anti-immigrant policies. Trafficking Rhetoric brings a feminist lens to trafficking studies, migration, rhetoric, and state policy in novel and compelling ways." --Julietta Hua, author of Trafficking Women's Human Rights

Details ISBN0814215580 Author Annie Hill Pages 154 Publisher Ohio State University Press Series New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780814215586 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-05-06 Imprint Ohio State University Press Subtitle Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery Place of Publication Columbus, OH Country of Publication United States Audience General US Release Date 2024-05-06 DEWEY 364.15510941 Illustrations 7 Illustrations ISBN-10 0814215580 UK Release Date 2024-05-06 We've got this

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