Panics without borders how global sporting events drive myths about sex trafficking
Preface -- List of FIFA Men's World Cup and Summer Olympic hosts (2000-2028) -- List of acronyms -- List of figures -- Introduction : the myth of the 40,000 missing girls -- Sex trafficking discourse as white supremacy -- Panic at the gringo -- Fallacious spectacles and the celebrification of s...
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | New sexual worlds
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Preface -- List of FIFA Men's World Cup and Summer Olympic hosts (2000-2028) -- List of acronyms -- List of figures -- Introduction : the myth of the 40,000 missing girls -- Sex trafficking discourse as white supremacy -- Panic at the gringo -- Fallacious spectacles and the celebrification of sex trafficking -- Eat-pray-labor -- Let come the whore assemblage -- Epilogue. "We are living in a time of great panic about 'sex trafficking'--an idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite such baseless statistical claims, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these events. However, police violence against sex workers always does. While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts the move of sex trafficking into the realm of the spectacular-street protests, awareness-raising campaigns, telenovelas, social media, and celebrity spokespeople--where it spreads across borders. This trend is dangerous because these events happen in moments of nationalist fervor during which fears of foreigners and migrants are heightened and easily exploited to frightening ends"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xix, 297 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780520381766 9780520381773 |