Citation

Richardson D, Laurie N. Br. J. Sociol. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

School of Geography and Sustainable Development, Irvine Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, London School of Economics and Political Science, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1468-4446.12707

PMID

31553504

Abstract

This article is concerned with returning to sexual stigma in two key respects. First, it prompts a return to the conceptual understanding of sexual stigma and makes an important contribution to critiques of the individualized frameworks that have dominated much of the literature on stigma to date, through a critical analysis of sexual stigma as a collective process at different scales and locations. Second, using empirical data from a qualitative study of post-trafficking experiences of women in Nepal as a case study to develop theoretical understandings of the production of stigma, it explores modalities of sexualized stigma encountered on return from trafficking situations. Within the trafficking literature there has been very little attention to what happens after trafficking. This article addresses this gap in focusing on lives post-trafficking and, in addition, contributes to the limited research on trafficking in Nepal.

© London School of Economics and Political Science 2019.

Language: en

Keywords

Nepal; Sexual stigma; gender; human trafficking; post-trafficking; stigma