2013
DOI: 10.1590/s1809-43412013000200012
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Abstract: This article provides an overview of how trafficking in persons has come to be imagined in Brazil. We stipulate that a mythical narrative has become central to discourses about trafficking used to guide policy-makers and educate civil society. We perform a structural analysis of this myth arguing that its acceptance, combined with the persistence of laws that define trafficking solely as the migration of prostitutes, has shifted public discussion towards a paradigm of passivity and law enforcement where member… Show more

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“…The practical employment of this conceptual vagueness is visible in "sexual exploitation's" linkage to "human trafficking", yet another problematic category whose multiple definitions and political and moral manipulations have been abundantly described elsewhere (Davida Group 2005;Piscitelli 2008Piscitelli , 2015Blanchette and Silva 2012;da Silva et al 2013;Sprandel 2014;Kempadoo 2007;O'Connell Davidson 2012). This ambiguous and affectively productive use can be seen in the definition of "sexual exploitation" employed by the Diagnosis of Trafficking in Persons in Border Areas (National Secretariat of Justice 2013), wherein it is described as:…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The practical employment of this conceptual vagueness is visible in "sexual exploitation's" linkage to "human trafficking", yet another problematic category whose multiple definitions and political and moral manipulations have been abundantly described elsewhere (Davida Group 2005;Piscitelli 2008Piscitelli , 2015Blanchette and Silva 2012;da Silva et al 2013;Sprandel 2014;Kempadoo 2007;O'Connell Davidson 2012). This ambiguous and affectively productive use can be seen in the definition of "sexual exploitation" employed by the Diagnosis of Trafficking in Persons in Border Areas (National Secretariat of Justice 2013), wherein it is described as:…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to critical scholars, in order to allow for a more appropriate and multifaceted description of the issue of prostitution, it is crucial to distance oneself from simplistic and uniform representations of the trafficked women as helpless and irresponsible 'victims' (Berman 2003). This movement of deconstruction allows a distancing from the 'discourse of salvation' of the abolitionist approach, which portrays migrant prostitutes as passive, poor, naive, deceived and manipulated by barbarous traffickers, thus opening the way to introduce an alternative vision which in turn highlights autonomy and political action (Silva, Blanchette and Bento 2010).…”
Section: The Critical Feminist Approach: Deconstruction Of Simplisticmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Em outro plano, analisa-se como a associação intrínseca de "exploração sexual" com a violência gera dificuldades para pensar "trabalho" -inclusive no campo do "trabalho sexual" de homens e mulheres adultas (Piscitelli 2012), bem como sobre as maneiras como a "exploração sexual" de crianças é usada operativa e midiaticamente para reprimir a prostituição -adulta, autônoma (Beleli & Olivar 2011;Piscitelli 2012;Silva et al 2013;Blanchette & Silva 2016) e para a reprodução de verdades psico-médico-jurídicas nas transformações e atualizações dos "regimes" da sexualidade (Carrara 2015).…”
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