scholarly journals Purity or danger? The establishment of sex trafficking as a social problem in Sweden

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-440
Author(s):  
Anita Heber
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Western World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sex Slave ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Sex trafficking has become established as one of the most significant (crime) problems in the Western world. This article provides a greater understanding of how the work of certain actors, that is claims-makers, established sex trafficking as a prominent problem on the political and media agendas in Sweden during the 2000s. It can help us understand how certain crimes can achieve the position of social problems. The study analyses political texts and debates, newspaper articles and reports published by the Swedish police. The sex-trafficking discourses that were particularly dominant in the material were: ‘The ideal sex slave Lilya’ (referring to the film Lilya 4-ever), ‘The foreign threat from the East’ and ‘Hidden but well-established organized crime’. By defining sex trafficking as an important problem, with the aid of these three discourses, a large number of claims-makers were given the opportunity to emphasize threatening and racialized discourses about ‘sex slaves’, immigration and organized crime. These discourses on sex trafficking create moral borders between innocence and guilt, between belonging and unbelonging, and between purity and danger.

scholarly journals Ambiguous agency in the vulnerable trafficked body: reading Sanusi’s Eyo and Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Dina Ligaga
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
African Women ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Face ◽  
African Migrant ◽  
Sex Slave

The narrativization of the trafficked body in the novels of Abidemi Sanusi and Chika Unigwe allows for a contemplation of Europe in African migrant imaginaries as both promise and failure. Sanusi’s Eyo is a narrative of a ten-year-old girl who is trafficked to the United Kingdom as a human sex slave. The novel draws attention to the tensions that define her being/unbeing in Europe and beyond, even after a brave escape from her traffickers. This precarious existence is enhanced in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street, whose main characters exist in Europe selling their bodies while existing in states of continuous vulnerability. In reading these two novels side by side, this article explores the discursive meanings of trafficked bodies and how traumatic existence allows for an engagement with Europe as illusory in the imaginaries of African women who cross borders into Europe. The article argues that while the female characters are vulnerable, they retain an ambiguous agency contained within their ability to survive and remain resilient in the face of atrocities for borders crossers. The narrative form of the novel allows for an exploration of what this agency looks like in the face of extreme vulnerability.

Girls in war: Sex slave, mother, domestic aide, combatant

UN Chronicle ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-53
Author(s):  
Radhika Coomaraswamy
Keyword(s):  
Sex Slave

scholarly journals will the real sex slave please stand up?

2006 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia O'Connell Davidson
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Sex Slave

The lived experience of surviving from the Islamic State attack and capture in Iraq and Syria: An arts-based qualitative study with Yazidi young women

2022 ◽  
pp. 002076402110689
Author(s):  
Deldar Morad Abdulah ◽  
Bayar Mohammed Omar Abdulla ◽  
Pranee Liamputtong
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Young Females ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Sex Slave

Background: In August 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attacked the Sinjar district and destroyed several villages and towns and killed several individuals. Aim: In this study, the Yazidi young women who survived the ISIS attack were encouraged to express their lived experiences through paintings following participation in a 6-month art-based intervention program. Methods: A total of 13 Yazidi Kurdish females aged 18 to 25 years (Mean: 21.7 years) were invited to participate in an art-based (drawing and painting) course for 6 months in 2018. They were invited to draw or paint images that portrayed their lived experiences of attack and capture by the ISIS. Qualitative research situated within feminist methodology was used with the young women in this study. The interviews were analyzed using the descriptive content analysis method. Results: The paintings and narratives of the participants were constructed into three main themes: fear and traumatic experiences; feeling of hopelessness; and freedom and hope. During the attack and capture, due to the escape, rape, and horrific treatments by the ISIS fighters, the young women were traumatized severely. They were sold as a sex slave by the ISIS fighters. The participants still had severe anxiety and psychological challenges after being free from the capture. However, despite their traumatic experiences and feeling of hopelessness, most of them were hoping for freedom and a better future. Conclusions: This study showed that the Yazidi young females still experienced psychological challenges burdens even 3 years after the traumatic day. However, the participants showed their resilience through feeling hopeful for freedom and a better future.

scholarly journals Rethinking sin and evil through the life of a child sex slave

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Jones
Keyword(s):  
Original Sin ◽  
Black African ◽  
Sex Slavery ◽  
Sex Slave ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Evolutionary Perspectives ◽  
As If

This article rethinks (original) sin and evil through the life of a child called Engela who has been ‘sold’ into sex slavery. Focus is placed on the high value with which children should be regarded, especially children who have been sold as sex slaves. During this argument the emphasis is placed on ecclesiastical evolutionary perspectives on creation as well as relevantand contemporary understandings of sin and evil, and related to this, the devil and hell. Towards the end of the article theological consideration is given to fatherlessness, because Engela’s father was often absent in her life. According to literature, Jesus in all probability grew up without a father too. It seems as if Joseph played a minimal role in his life and education, whilst Jesus’ own experience of rejection laid the foundation for his compassion with the socially rejected, particularly children. Fatherlessness from a black African liberation perspective is also contextualised and applied.

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