Trafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery (New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality)

Human trafficking has generated intense global concern, with stories of sex slavery and images of women forced into prostitution so persuasive that states have raced to respond ahead of empirical data and clear definitions of the crime. In Trafficking Rhetoric, Annie Hill analyzes the entanglement of state veneration and state violence by tracking how the United Kingdom points to the alleged crimes of others in order to celebrate itself and conceal its own aggression. Hill compares the UK's acclaimed rescue approach to human trafficking with its hostile approach to migration, arguing that they are two sides of the same coin--one that relies on rhetorical constructions of "trafficked women" and "illegal migrants" to materialize the UK as an Anglo-white space. Drawing from official estimates, policy papers, NGO reports, news stories, and awareness campaigns and situating them in the broader EU context, Hill accounts for why the UK's antitrafficking agenda emerged with such rhetorical force in the early twenty-first century. Trafficking Rhetoric reframes controversies over labor, citizenship, and migration while challenging the continued traction of race-baiting and gender bias in determining who has the right to live, work, and belong in the nation.

Politics & Social Sciences

Hill, Annie

Social Sciences

Ohio State University Press

Sailing and crusing to distant shores can be as cheap or expensive as the pocket desires. This bestseller is about how to get the right boat, prepare it and organize the financial side of life, so that you can manage the costs.

Voyaging on a Small Income

Sports & Outdoors

Adlard Coles

Travel with the authors on a voyage in Badger along the Brazilian coast and then on to the Falkland Islands, including useful sketch charts of the out-of-the-way ports they visited. This guide provides enough technical information to satisfy any sailor as well as plenty of travel adventure to satisfy the sailor's soul.

Brazil & Beyond

Water Sports

Tiller Publishing

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