Citation

Ragaru N. Actes Recher. Sci. Soc. 2013; (198): 49-58.

Vernacular Title

"On n'est jamais aussi bien que dans sa famille". (French) "Es geht einem nirgendwo besser als in der eigenen Familie". (German)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Maison des sciences de l'homme)

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Abstract

In the early 2000s, the Bulgarian government has formulated "return policies" targeting people identified as victims of human trafficking, in response to international injunctions and NGO pressures. This paper explores these policies on the basis of observations of the refuges where the victims receive psychological and social assistance. By reconstructing the development of these refuges, it sheds light on a surreptitious process of institutionalization, connected with the emergence of a "project society" in which assistance programs are often ephemeral and reflect competing and changing views in the framing of human trafficking as a public issue. The analysis of the operations through which care workers try to make the condition of victim legible underscores the tension between the assignation of identities and the assumption of an alienated identity, between individualizing relationships and profiling, and between the administration of immobility and migration trajectories that explains the failure of these policies of "social reintregration." (English)


Keywords: Human trafficking