Opportunities and limitations in the counter-trafficking field: the experience of participating in Portuguese counter-trafficking networks

National and transnational collaborations networks, within across different sectors, are often described as critical elements of counter-trafficking efforts. This assumption has encouraged the proliferation in Portuguese field national local bringing together governmental non-governmental organizations to work on issues relating “human trafficking”. Using autoethnography a methodological narrative tool, this article explores type collaboration cooperation characterizing these cross-sectoral networks opportunities limitations they bring, including favouring substantial “victim-centered” approach trafficking. The discussion argues that differences priorities, capital power network members help shape largely configured an anti-politics instrument neoliberal apparatus.