To browse Academia. Additionally, it hides the role of EU states' immigration, residency and employment policies in creating conditions that make migrants vulnerable to labour exploitation in the sex or other informal sectors. The term sex trafficking hides more than it actually reveals about working lives of migrant women in the sex industry and about how conditions of illegality, exploitation and vulnerability arise. These issues, Rutvica suggests, need to be viewed in relation to a wider picture: European citizenship policy.
The category of the victim of trafficking limits the way migrant women are conceived, portraying them in a passive light, and denying their rights as active agents and political actors. Anti-trafficking policies need equally to be considered with a critical eye as these often overlap with restrictive border, visa and residency regulations that limit migrants' labour mobility and access to citizenship.
This in turn perpetuates inequalities between citizens and migrants in wider Europe. Elsa Korkman. The thesis studies the European anti-trafficking framework, comprehending relevant EU and Council of Europe instruments, and the narrative of trafficking that it creates. The aim of the thesis is to identify the assumptions and the imagery of trafficking upon which the framework is formed as well as the exclusions and blind spots that these assumptions create.
The thesis analyses the legal framework by adopting a critical feminist methodology. It studies assumptions concerning gender and migration in the trafficking narrative by first focusing on a linkage between trafficking and prostitution policies, then on a linkage between trafficking and migration and finally on connections between trafficking and other forms of gender-based violence.
Assumptions of what trafficking is are produced through linkages, and sometimes lacks of linkages, between these frameworks.
