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Title: | Towards carceral protectionist territories: Relational geographies of anti-trafficking confinement in Nepal |
Authors: | Bhagat, A Yea, S |
Keywords: | human trafficking;carceral protectionism;immobility;migration infrastructures;Nepal |
Issue Date: | 6-May-2024 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Citation: | Bhagat, A. and Yea, S. (2024) 'Towards carceral protectionist territories: Relational geographies of anti-trafficking confinement in Nepal', Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0 (ahead of print), pp. 1 - 19. doi: 10.1177/23996544241251961. |
Abstract: | The article draws on labour and migration bans in Nepal as a case study to advance nascent, yet growing attention towards trafficking borders in critical geographical research on anti-trafficking. It does so by highlighting a relational geography of carceral protectionist spaces which are encountered, navigated, and sometimes escaped by women citizens on the move who are pre-emptively rescued/‘saved’ from the possibility of being ‘trafficked.’ Specifically, we aim to extend these critical interventions on carceral protectionism in two interconnected ways. First, whilst extant research mainly focuses on institutions and actors within migrant destination states, we examine the operations of carceral protectionist spaces within the home countries of migrant women. Second, we tease out the ways carceral protectionist spaces can actively produce the very subjects they seek to deter or eradicate as they navigate and challenge these institutional spaces. Through the discussion, we develop threads of the conceptualisation of a carceral protectionist territory to indicate the multiple and diffuse, yet interconnected, sites through which women’s mobility aspirations are constrained by anti-trafficking infrastructures. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/28994 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241251961 |
ISSN: | 2399-6544 |
Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: Ayushman Bhagat https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8878-4668 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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