North Korean Women's Narratives of Migration: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses of Trafficking and Geopolitics

Choi, Eun-Mi

doi:10.1080/00045608.2013.862129

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“…Yet, ‘full participation often remains an ideal’ (Carretta & Riano, 2016: 260) and feminist research methodologies need to unfold the relationship between researchers and research participants and oppose claims of objectivity (Choi, 2014). The first author was living as a Thai migrant in a cross‐cultural relationship in Austria herself and held a student resident permit.…”

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Gender, class, and paradoxical mobilities of Thai marriage migrants in Austria

Butratana

Trupp

2020

Singap J Trop Geogr

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In this paper, we investigate whether marriage‐related migration promotes socioeconomic mobility and how class belonging and educational background affects Thai women's migration experience and socioeconomic mobility. Drawing on qualitative interviews, supported by a questionnaire survey with Thai women living in Austria and who are in a relationship with a Western male citizen, we seek to dismantle simplistic notions about hypergamy and question common assumption about marrying up or down in migration contexts. We compare socioeconomic indicators such as formal education, occupation, and income before and after the migration and analyse migrants’ experiences in Austria. The results show a complex picture of upward and downward socioeconomic mobilities. Two distinct scenarios of paradoxical mobilities have been identified. On the one hand, some migrants feel empowered (when experiencing economic downward mobility) as they enjoy the freedom of living in Austria, while on the other hand, those migrants experiencing upward mobility feel a loss of their personal autonomy.

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Gender, class, and paradoxical mobilities of Thai marriage migrants in Austria

Butratana

Trupp

2020

Singap J Trop Geogr

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“…Partimos da noção de tráfico em sua origem histórica (Cabezas, 2016;Venson, 2013;Weekes, 2006), que congrega mobilidade e acesso relativo à fronteiras e crimes que envolvem o interesse do Estado (Choi, 2014;Meshkovska Et Al 2015;Munro, 2006;Venson & Pedro, 2013), incluindo as noções disputadas governamentalmente (Parliament of The United Kingdom, 1885;United Nations, 1904, 1921, 1933. Delimitamos, também, o uso político do TIP para o controle de corpos e moralidade em termos civil e juridicamente na composição da sociedade (Choi, 2014;Zuquete;Souza & Deslandes, 2016).…”

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Três esquemas analíticos para analisar o tráfico internacional de pessoas: em busca de uma concepção política da violência

Baptista

2021

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O objetivo deste ensaio é delimitar um esquema analítico sobre o Tráfico Internacional de Pessoas (TIP), considerando suas peculiaridades, em busca de uma concepção sociológica-jurídica que avalie a noção da pessoa traficada e o status da vítima. Metodologicamente, empreendemos estudo de caráter exploratório, afim de alcançar objetivo descritivo, a partir de procedimentos bibliográficos, documentais e estatísticos. Delimitamos, assim a necessidade de articulação de diversos elementos sociais, políticos e econômicos que possam dar conta de um fenômeno multifacetado, econômica sociológica e politicamente que impactam nas formas como o TIP se enraíza na estrutura de um país. Desenvolvemos, portanto, um esquema tripartite conceitual, sociológico-jurídico e político. Os três esquemas podem permitir, em conjunto, uma leitura mais precisa de um crime não pode mais ser lido sob apenas uma lente. Remetemos à ideia de que uma concepção política do Tráfico Internacional de Pessoas demanda uma concepção sociológica que analise as dinâmicas sociais, tendo em vista a garantia de direitos à vítima, afim de que se rompa este crime.

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“…In the geographical literature, the work of Yea provides probably the richest empirical oeuvre of intersectional relations constituting human trafficking processes. Yea's analyses highlight the significance of multiple, changing and often ambiguous social positions (Yea, ) framed by gender (Yea, ), racialisation (Yea, b), age (Yea, ), personal relationships (Yea, ) and geopolitics (Yea, ; also Choi, ).…”

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“…At one point this could be attributed to the pronounced dearth of human trafficking studies by geographers (Laurie, Richardson, Poudel, & Townsend, ; Smith, ), but disciplinary interest is growing, with studies on border practices and management (Choi, ; FitzGerald, ; Laurie, Richardson, Poudel & Townsend, ), children's agency (Beazley, ; Blazek & Esson, ; Boyden & Howard, ), perceptions of human trafficking, anti‐trafficking policies and institutional praxis (Mendel & Sharapov, ; Yea, , , b), trafficking practices and experiences (Choi, ; Esson, ; Laurie, Richardson, Poudel, Samuha & Townsend, ; Laurie, Richardson, Poudel & Townsend, ; Yea, ), socio‐legal aspects (Strauss, ) and confluences between human trafficking and precarious labour (Lewis et al., ; McGrath, ; Strauss & McGrath, ) and sex work (van Blerk, ). However, arguably, what is missing is a sustained effort to conceptualise human trafficking as a geographical phenomenon and develop a relationally‐spatial perspective.…”

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Relational geographies of human trafficking: Inequality, manoeuvring and im/mobility across space and time

Blažek

Smith

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper demonstrates why and how a fuller geographical perspective extends contemporary scholarship on human trafficking within and beyond the discipline.We employ a relational approach and draw on in-depth qualitative research with trafficked persons and a range of stakeholders in Slovakia and the United Kingdom (UK), to depict how the processes underpinning human trafficking are nonlinear and operate instantaneously at multiple intersecting scales and temporalities and through diverse mobilities. The analysis problematises the discrete and homogeneous notion of space coupled with a linear conceptualisation of time and, more specifically, the normative portrayals of recruitment, transit and exploitation as distinct and sequential phases of human trafficking. Instead, the individuated experiences of trafficked persons are examined in relational geographies of inequality, manoeuvring and mobilities. Such a conceptual shift ensures that efforts to understand and combat human trafficking address its effects as well as the wider social relations and structural conditions that facilitate exploitation. We conclude the paper by outlining how a relational-geographic perspective has the potential to foster new forms of dialogue and inquiry within and beyond the discipline. K E Y W O R D SEastern Europe, exploitation, human trafficking, inequality, mobilities, relational geographies 1 | INTRODUCTION Human trafficking is inherently spatial, comprising cross-cutting processes of exploitation within and across local, regional, national and international borders. Yet, academic, policy and media understandings of human trafficking tend to rely on a discrete and homogeneous conceptualisation of space coupled with a linear conceptualisation of time (Smith, 2017). Our aim in this paper is to contribute to critical debates over structural inequalities that underpin human trafficking (Anderson & Ruhs, 2010;Andrijasevic, 2010;Lewis et al., 2015;Piper et al., 2015) by offering a geographical conceptualisation of human trafficking that explicitly recognises the relational nature of space and time. Using in-depth qualitative research with trafficked persons and a range of stakeholders in Slovakia and the United Kingdom (UK), we examine why viewing processes such as recruitment, transit and exploitation as distinct and sequential phases of the human trafficking process is reductive. In turn, we reframe human trafficking as a relational composition that spans multiple spaces and temporalities.The paper is structured as follows. First, we outline relational perspectives on human trafficking within critical inter-disciplinary scholarship and suggest that this could be enriched by engaging explicitly with relational conceptions of space (and time). Second, we introduce the writings of Massey, Bergson and Deleuze and present the theoretical framework for ---

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North Korean Women's Narratives of Migration: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses of Trafficking and Geopolitics

Cited by 24 publications

References 31 publications

Gender, class, and paradoxical mobilities of Thai marriage migrants in Austria

Gender, class, and paradoxical mobilities of Thai marriage migrants in Austria

Três esquemas analíticos para analisar o tráfico internacional de pessoas: em busca de uma concepção política da violência

Relational geographies of human trafficking: Inequality, manoeuvring and im/mobility across space and time

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