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RedTraSex is a Latin American transnational network organizing sex
workers to push back and challenge the persistent and leading narrative on
sex work, labour and human trafficking. The presence of the network
highlights the role of collective action needed to challenge laws and address
the rights of sex workers across the region. Representing sex worker
organizations in fifteen countries in the region, RedTraSex creates an
alternate vision around organizing and affirming the rights of sex workers

In this article I present partial results of anthropological research
conducted between 2010 and 2015 in Tabatinga, a city located on the triple
border of Brazil with Colombia and Peru in the Amazon. I seek to
understand how human trafficking discourses arrived, circulated and were
produced in the region during this time period. I focus on the multiple
relationships between local/transborder social, sexual and political
dynamics, and their intimate relation-ship with “sexual exploitation”

We analyze the expansion of the anti-trafficking discourse in Puerto Rico
and its application to Dominican immigrants. Based on interviews with
social service providers, we argue that Dominican women are invisible in
current discourses of human trafficking for several reasons: their
racialization in a xenophobic context, their intimate labour trajectory, and
the national and international frameworks for understanding human
trafficking that exclude them from the category of “trafficking” victim and

This article considers the attention paid to human trafficking in the
Caribbean by governments of the region. It first examines how countries in
the region have been positioned in the annual US Trafficking in Persons
(TIP) Report from 2001 to 2016, discussing the shortcomings of hegemonic
discourses to trafficking such as problems with definitions, statistics and
evidence, the political underpinnings of the TIP report, and contradictions
in indices of ‘development’ in the region. It then turns to examine

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