Migrant Crossings
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Migrant Crossings

Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S.

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Migrant Crossings

Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S.

About this book

Migrant Crossings examines the experiences and representations of Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked in the United States into informal economies and service industries. Through sociolegal and media analysis of court records, press releases, law enforcement campaigns, film representations, theatre performances, and the law, Annie Isabel Fukushima questions how we understand victimhood, criminality, citizenship, and legality.

Fukushima examines how migrants legally cross into visibility, through frames of citizenship, and narratives of victimhood. She explores the interdisciplinary framing of the role of the law and the legal system, the notion of "perfect victimhood", and iconic victims, and how trafficking subjects are resurrected for contemporary movements as illustrated in visuals, discourse, court records, and policy. Migrant Crossings deeply interrogates what it means to bear witness to migration in these migratory times—and what such migrant crossings mean for subjects who experience violence during or after their crossing.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 An American Haunting: Witnessing Human Trafficking and Ghostly Exclusions
  6. 2 Legal Control of Migrant Crossings: Citizenship, Labor, and Racialized Sexualities
  7. 3 “Perfect Victims” and Labor Migration
  8. 4 Witnessing Legal Narratives, Court Performances, and Translations of Peruvian Domestic Work
  9. 5 (Living)Dead Subjects: Mamasans, Sex Slaves, and Sexualized Economies
  10. Conclusion
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Appendix A: Sample Letter of Certification for Human Trafficking, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  13. Appendix B: Glossary of Human Trafficking–Related Terms
  14. Appendix C: Nonimmigrant Status Visas
  15. Appendix D: Differences Between Human Trafficking and Smuggling
  16. Appendix E: Culture and the Trafficked, the Trafficker, and the Anti-trafficker
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index