Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/8721
2024-03-29T02:50:06Z‘Now More Than Ever, Survivors Need Us’: Essential labouring and increased precarity during COVID-19
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34801
‘Now More Than Ever, Survivors Need Us’: Essential labouring and increased precarity during COVID-19
Schwarz, Corinne; Britton, Hannah; Nay, Eden D. E.; Holland, Christie
During the earliest waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, much media and public discourse focused on the effects of increasing precarity on already vulnerable populations. As in-person work added a layer of viral risk and unemployment drastically exacerbated economic precariousness, the category of ‘essential worker’ gained new prominence in these conversations. In this paper, we focus on the complicated relationship between two groups of workers depicted as marginalised and exploited to different degrees during COVID-19: trafficked persons and anti-trafficking service providers. Though media coverage did not conflate these groups, it applied a capacious understanding of precarious labour and structural inequalities that encapsulated different types of essential work. We draw on media produced by frontline anti-trafficking and sex workers’ rights organisations between March and May 2020. Even with renewed attention to macro-level harms, many publications still emphasised individualism over collectivity. This emphasis on singular organisational representatives—frontline workers—as heroic rescuers mirrored larger, normative anti-trafficking discourses. At the point at which the ‘new normal’ was nowhere in sight, COVID-19 served as a flashpoint to reconsider current intervention strategies and instead emphasise a critique of precarious labour along multiple vectors.
2023-09-29T00:00:00ZUnderstanding Risk and Prevention in Midwestern Antitrafficking Efforts: Service Providers' Perspectives
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/34458
Understanding Risk and Prevention in Midwestern Antitrafficking Efforts: Service Providers' Perspectives
Britton, Hannah E.
Since the 2000 passage of both the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and the U.N.’s Palermo Protocols, human trafficking has gained a notable global presence as a human rights concern. Community organizations, nonprofits, scholars, policymakers, and service providers have developed programs to identify and address human trafficking. Despite these efforts, finding reliable methods to document and quantify the instances of human trafficking continues to challenge researchers. Moreover, many believe trafficking is a problem primarily located in urban areas or along national borders.
Drawing from seven years of interviews with service providers who work in this sector, combined with survey results from an additional 722 service providers, this project adds to the growing body of research on human trafficking, specifically in the Midwestern United States. The findings of this study indicate that place and location matter in antitrafficking, especially with regard to availability of and access to resources across urban and rural areas. However, these service providers also identify similar concerns across regions with regards to trafficking warning signs and risk factors—for both sex and labor trafficking—as well as community resources that could prevent trafficking or alleviate vulnerability. These findings point toward the benefit of research that is geographically focused and involves both qualitative and quantitative research.
Additionally, this research has uncovered unexpected groups of community members that may be vital in the identification and prevention of human trafficking. Though there is a growing body of research about the role of medical practitioners, law enforcement, foster care workers, and social workers in the struggle to address trafficking, there are other groups that also have important insight into the risks their communities face. Interviews revealed that firefighters have particular relationships with the communities they serve and may be ideally positioned to address human trafficking, exploitation, and vulnerability because of these relationships.
2020-06-22T00:00:00ZProsem On Child Care
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/33587
Prosem On Child Care
Phillips, Deborah
Proseminar On Child Care featuring Deborah Phillips at the University of Kansas in 1989.
1989-01-01T00:00:00ZReconceptualizing Gender and Global Restructuring
https://hdl.handle.net/1808/33586
Reconceptualizing Gender and Global Restructuring
Runyan, Anne Sisson
Talk given at KU on April 10, 1998 by Anne Sisson Runyan, co-author of Global Gender Issues and co-editor of Gender and Global Restructuring.
1998-04-10T00:00:00Z