@article{ref1,
title="The counter-trafficking apparatus in action: who benefits from it?",
journal="Dialectical anthropology",
year="2022",
author="Clemente, Mara",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Based on long-term ethnographic research, including documentary research, qualitative interviews and observations made at a Portuguese shelter for &quot;sex trafficked women,&quot; this paper explores the counter-trafficking apparatus questioning who benefits from it. The discussion explores the contrasts between an institutional commitment to constructing this apparatus and the actuality of procedural efforts purporting to support &quot;trafficking victims.&quot; I argue that the higher goal of building a counter-trafficking apparatus - in itself a political objective - limits the rights of &quot;victims,&quot; making processes that claim to be part of their protection de facto neo-liberal anti-political exercises in reenforcing bureaucratic state power.  Keywords: Human trafficking; <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0304-4092",
doi="10.1007/s10624-022-09655-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-022-09655-8"
}