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A House Divided: Humanitarianism and Anti-immigration Within US Anti-trafficking Legislation
DOONAN1,Christina - Personal Name
he Trafficking Victims Protection Act legislation has established the USas a global humanitarian leader on the issue of human trafficking. Through the useof formulaic victim narratives, appeals to masculinist protection, and invocations ofslave abolitionism, legislators frame the law as a work of compassion and protectionof migrant people. On the other hand, legislators often take a suspicious andunsympathetic approach to irregular migrants. This article describes the humani-tarian posture adopted by the US in relation to anti-trafficking, contrasting it with ananti-immigration sentiment, evidenced in two attempts to limit or rescind thebenefits of anti-trafficking legislation for migrants. When considered together thehumanitarian and anti-immigration focus of anti-trafficking law and policy make foran internally inconsistent approach to tackling trafficki
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Christina Doonan1
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