CORRUPTION

International Affairs Forum Fall 2016
...migrants are susceptible to trafficking because they often lack
protection in their countries of origin, and their desperation leads
to the potential for victimization.
trafficking–focused criminal gangs in the developed and developing worlds, but she does not connect
her concept of cross-border ethnic networks as pivotal to the sustainability of the human trafficking
industry.
The existence of human trafficking offenders who are migrants does not negate issues of
victimization. Regardless of offender characteristics, migrants are susceptible to trafficking because
they often lack protection in their countries of origin, and their desperation leads to the potential
for victimization. Migrants are embedded in a heterotopia that is neither here nor there. They have
space, but no place. Their relationship to the global community is tethered to notions of their status
as migrants. Their entrenchment in a heterotopia is not itself problematic. Lacking a place, however,
is a fundamental human rights issue. To deny an individual a place is to take a position of intolerance
fixed in Otherness.
Having recently completed her Doctoral degree at McGill University,
Dr. Erin Denton is interested in developing statistical representations
of human trafficking for the purpose of analyzing data through a social
network framework. Her additional research interests include definitions of
deviance (historical and modern) and the various modes of social control
implemented to mitigate “deviant” cultures and/or individuals (including
legislation, crime control, and media representations). Dr. Denton’s most
recent work at the London School of Economics explores the sociological
and technological framework of contemporary White Power movements.
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