Hollow Bodies
Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia, and India
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Publisher: Kumarian Press
July 2008 , 216 pp., 6" x 9"
In Hollow Bodies, Susan Dewey travels to Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and India to follow the trade in women’s bodies and efforts to stop it. What she finds is a counter-trafficking system at the mercy of funds from misguided international organizations and foreign governments. From counterproductive restrictions placed on NGOs by donors, to jaded employees and bribes given to prosecutors, Dewey highlights the structural flaws in place that allow, and sometimes even help, sex trafficking to continue.

Based on research conducted with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Dewey speaks with a range of actors from bar workers in Bombay to Embassy employees in Armenia and senior officials at international organizations. She discovers how a global problem plays out differently on the local level and why millions of aid dollars make little difference in the lives of women who are forced or compelled from their homes into the global sex trade.

Table of Contents:
Preface; 1) SARAJEVO ROSES: WHY FEMINIST QUESTIONS ARE ALSO HUMAN QUESTIONS: Introduction to the Case Studies: Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and India; Important Questions and Clarifications; 2) FROM "WHITE SLAVERY" TO NATIONAL SECURITY: Counter-trafficking Discourse and Idioms; International Efforts and Protocols; The Eastern European Bias; Anti-trafficking Organizations; Debates on Agency, Consent and Choice; IOM Efforts to Provide More Sensitive Images of Sex Trafficking; 3) ARMENIA: INSTITUTIONALIZED INDIFFERENCE, RELIANCE ON DONOR AID, AND LOCAL DISEMPOWERMENT: Family Violence as an Indicator of Risk; "In Soviet Times This Never Happened": The Politics of Nostalgia and Memory; 4) BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: NGOS, DONOR AID AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF POST-CONFLICT CIVIL SOCIETY: Gendering War and Its Consequences; State-Sponsored Rape on Trial; The Impacts of Post-war Donor Fatigue; The Roma: Sex Trafficking, Migration and Human Rights; Bosnia and the Politics of European Union Accession; 5) INDIA: RETHINKING THE TRAFFIC IN WOMEN: The Power of Social Invisibility to Subjugate; Dancing Girls and Structural Adjustment; Social Class and "Moral Danger"; Banking on Resiliency: IOM India and the ERTV Success Story; 6) FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN TIMES OF CRISIS: Invisible Agents, Hollow Bodies: When Injustice Becomes Business as Usual; Institutional Power, Individual Lives, and the Politics of Feminist Research; Postscript; References; List of Abbreviations; About the Author; Index.


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"Hollow Bodies is a very, very good book. Susan Dewey's ethnographic cases of international and local officials, as some try to thwart traffickers while others become unwittingly complicit in trafficking, is so revealing. This is feminist investigating at its best."
- Cynthia Enloe, author of Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link
"A critique of govenment and NGO efforts to combat sex trafficking."
- The Chronicle of Higher Education