Sex Work in Jamaica Trafficking, Modern Slavery and Slavery’s Afterlives

Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor; Julia O'Connell Davidson

Sex Work in Jamaica Trafficking, Modern Slavery and Slavery’s Afterlives

Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, Julia O'Connell Davidson

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Abstract

This chapter explores the contemporary experience of Jamaican sex workers against these two visions of slavery’s wrong. It argues that because it reads contract as freedom, current anti-trafficking discourse is forced to deny the ethnographic realities of phenomena it dubs “modern slavery.” A focus on what it means to live in the wake of racial slavery affords a more useful lens through which to analyze the restraints on freedom experienced by Jamaican sex workers today.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	16
Pages	237
Number of pages	252
Publication status	Published - 7 Jun 2022

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