scholarly journals Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reports

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
Elena Krsmanovic
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Child Trafficking ◽  
White Slavery ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Victim Assistance ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Trafficking Victims ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Narratives

This article explores how UK media narratives construct sexual exploitation of British children as a phenomenon to be approached differently than sexual exploitation of trafficked minors who are non-British nationals. Qualitative analysis of media articles that frame infamous child sexual exploitation cases as occurrences of human trafficking shows that they bank on the motifs from the historical white slavery myth. Thereby, these articles endorse the stereotypes of white victim and foreign trafficker and obscure the diversity of trafficking victims, perpetrators, and experiences. Furthermore, comparison between media reports focusing on cases involving British minors, on the one hand, and minors from abroad, on the other hand, reveals that only the former problematise inadequate victim assistance and systemic failures in dealing with sexual exploitation of minors. This leaves structural causes of child trafficking unaddressed, promotes differential treatment of victims based on their nationality, and stigmatises whole communities as immoral and crime-prone.

Child Sexual Exploitation: Why Theory Matters

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Therapeutic Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Improve Practice

The issue of child sexual exploitation (CSE) is firmly in the public spotlight internationally and in the UK, but just how well is it understood? To date, many CSE-related services have been developed in reaction to high profile cases rather than being designed more strategically. This book breaks new ground by considering how psychosocial, feminist and geo-environmental theories, amongst others, can improve practice understanding and interventions. It makes the case for a more thoughtful approach to CSE prevention and a greater use of different theoretical perspectives in the development and delivery of strategies and interventions. The book is an essential text for students and those planning strategic interventions and practice activities in social, youth and therapeutic work with young people, as it supports understanding of how CSE arises and how to challenge the nature of the abuse.

scholarly journals ‘Traffickers and Their Victims’: Anti-Trafficking Policy in the United Kingdom

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiril Sharapov
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Victim Assistance ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
State Capital ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

This paper relies upon the ‘what’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to policy analysis to interrogate key representations of human trafficking implicit in the UK government’s anti-trafficking policy. It identifies six policy vectors, or representations, of human trafficking embedded within the policy, including organized crime, ‘illegal’ immigration, and victim assistance as three primary vectors; sexual exploitation/prostitution, poverty in countries of victims’ origin, and isolated instances of labour law infringements as three secondary vectors. In addition, a series of assumptions, which underlie the current interpretation of trafficking, are also identified. By exploring what the problem of human trafficking is represented to be, the paper also provides an insight into what remains obscured within the context of the dominant policy frameworks. In doing so, it highlights the role of state-capital entanglements in normalizing exploitation of trafficked, smuggled and ‘offshored’ labour, and critiques the UK’s anti-trafficking policy for manufacturing doubt as to the structural causes of human trafficking within the context of neoliberalism.

scholarly journals Roma Children and Young People in Bulgaria: Patterns of Risk and Effective Protection in Relation to Child Sexual Exploitation

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate D'Arcy ◽  
Isabelle Brodie
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Prosecution Strategies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Children In Care ◽  
Comparative Information

This article examines patterns of risk regarding child sexual exploitation (CSE). There is specific focus on those living in alternative care, child sexual exploitation and trafficking among Roma communities in Bulgaria and the UK. Data is drawn from a desk-based literature review and partnership work with Bulgarian and British academics and practitioners to explore the issues in both countries. Although there is limited statistical data on CSE and children in care across Europe and the risk-factors for Roma children and young people are still not being fully recognised, we can draw on what is known in Bulgaria to inform practice in the UK with emerging Roma communities. Research on CSE more generally can also inform awareness of risk factors particularly around care systems. Comparative information about what is known in the UK and Bulgaria is considered in order to make some recommendations for international prevention, protection efforts, and prosecution strategies for the future.

scholarly journals Analysing Media Reactions to Male/Male Dance Partnerships On British Reality TV Shows: Inclusive Masculinity in Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing On Ice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen Nee Wong ◽  
Vicki Harman ◽  
Craig Owen
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Male Couples ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk ◽  
First Time

AbstractStrictly Come Dancing and Dancing on Ice are primetime reality television shows that promote partner dancing as a form of leisure in the UK. Both shows have consistently represented partner dancing as a partnership between a man and a woman. However, in 2019 and 2020male/male partnerships were introduced into both shows for the first time. Drawing on media reports that discuss these male/male partnerships, this paper explores how the partnerships were represented and made sense of by mainstream and LGBT + media. Employing thematic discourse analysis, we demonstrate how the male/male dance partnerships were framed by a complex and contradictory inclusive masculinity discourse. On the one hand, this discourse celebrated the male/male couples as evidence that Britain is a progressive society in which homophobia is in decline. At the same time, the representations largely centred on the male dance couples’ bromances while ignoring or silencing discourses of gay love or sex. We show that although the representations can be viewed as a positive step forward, there were also some limitations to the representations which necessitate more critical examination in future research

scholarly journals Failing victims, fuelling hate: challenging the harms of the ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ narrative

Race & Class ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Cockbain ◽  
Waqas Tufail
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Child Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Muslim Men ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

‘Muslim grooming gangs’ have become a defining feature of media, political and public debate around child sexual exploitation in the UK. The dominant narrative that has emerged to explain a series of horrific cases is misleading, sensationalist and has in itself promoted a number of harms. This article examines how racist framings of ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ exist not only in extremist, far-right fringes but in mainstream, liberal discourses too. The involvement of supposedly feminist and liberal actors and the promotion of pseudoscientific ‘research’ have lent a veneer of legitimacy to essentialist, Orientalist stereotypes of Muslim men, the demonisation of whole communities and demands for collective responsibility. These developments are situated in the broader socio-political context, including the far Right’s weaponisation of women’s rights, the ‘Islamophobia industry’ and a long history of racialising crime. We propose alternative ways of understanding and responding to child sexual exploitation/abuse. We contend that genuinely anti-racist feminist approaches can help in centring victims/survivors and their needs and in tackling serious sexual violence without demonising entire communities.

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