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Why are some migrants suffering seen as more legitimate than others?

New article by Sine Plambech in Open Democracy

Identifying and separating ‘victims of trafficking’ from ‘criminals’ – the undocumented migrants considered guilty of violating immigration laws –is a complex daily practice in anti-trafficking work. Who among migrants is worthy of humanitarian assistance and who is not? What are the continuing effects of these designations on women afterthey are deported for selling sex in Europe?

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Beyond Trafficking and Slaveryisan editorial partnership between openDemocracy and researchers from Africa, Asia, America, Australia and Europe. It challenges both the empty sensationalism of mainstream media accounts of exploitation and domination, and the hollow, technocratic policy responses promoted by businesses and politicians.
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In her new article Violence in the safety of home: life in Nigeria after selling sex in EuropeSine Plambech argues that in the politics of migration governance conflicting meanings of home and hierarchies of sexualised violence emerge as critical for understanding the logic –and therefore the common failures –of would-be humanitarian migration management within the field of anti-trafficking.

The article is part of the platform “Beyond Trafficking and Slavery” at Open Democracy.

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Violence in the safety of home
Life in Nigeria after selling sex in Europe