Feminism and Counter-Trafficking: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Contemporary Feminism in Portugal
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Focusing on the Portuguese case, this article explores role of feminism in counter-trafficking. Through analysing feminist discourse human trafficking, interrogates feminism's ability and its limitations challenging or reinforcing some most controversial policy outcomes. The argues that, due to a structural weakness within itself profound institutionalisation counter-trafficking, any possibility dominant discourses trafficking remains distant dream. Rather, counter-trafficking attempts ultimately help create neoliberal space that strains transformative potential while simultaneously strengthening bureaucratic state feminism.
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عنوان ژورنال: Social & Legal Studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1461-7390', '0964-6639']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639221119361