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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    06 March 2025
    24 April 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009490313
    9781009490290
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009490313
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.53kg, 278 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, Socio-Legal Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Law, Asian Studies, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Socio-Legal Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Law, Asian Studies, Politics and International Relations
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    Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    This insightful ethnography delves into the complex intersection of India's anti-prostitution law and global anti-trafficking campaigns, and how they impact sex workers in both voluntary and involuntary situations. Immoral Traffic examines the role of legal actors and NGOs in implementing these interventions, revealing the mix of paternalism, humanitarianism, punitive care, bureaucracy, and morality in their efforts. Through a sequence of interventions prescribed by India's anti-prostitution law, the book follows the experiences of sex workers, from rescues to courts to carceral shelters. It sheds light on the ways in which donor-driven NGOs draw upon this law to implement anti-trafficking agendas, and how these interventions are navigated by women removed from the sex trade. Detailed and eye-opening, this book is a valuable resource for scholars and students of anthropology, law and society, gender and sexuality studies, South Asian studies, global studies, and critical studies of NGOs and humanitarianism.

    Awards

    Winner, 2024 Joseph W. Elder Prize, American Institute of Indian Studies

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