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In """"Hollow Bodies"""", Susan Dewey travels to Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and India to follow the trade in women's bodies and efforts to stop it. What she finds is a counter-trafficking system at the mercy of funds from misguided international organizations and foreign governments. From counterproductive restrictions placed on NGOs by donors, to jaded employees and bribes given to prosecutors, Dewey highlights the structural flaws in place that allow, and sometimes even help, sex trafficking to continue.Based on research conducted with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Dewey speaks with a range of actors from bar workers in Bombay to Embassy employees in Armenia and senior officials at international organizations. She discovers how a global problem plays on differently on the local level and why millions of aid dollars make little difference in the lives of women who are forced or compelled from their homes into the global sex trade.

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Dewey has taken a refreshingly unprecedented look at the issue of sex trafficking....Her focus on the lives of the women caught up in migration for the sex trade includes richly detailed descriptions of sex workers and trafficked women s lives, making evident her empathy and caring for her subjects, in contrast to the predominant trend in anti-trafficking literature to ignore the personhood and individual agency of these women. Rather than taking sides in the tired old debate between 'abolitionists' and 'sex worker rights advocates, ' Dewey centers her well-written analysis on the institutional responses to the trafficked women in three specific societies. She cogently demonstrates how such cultural contexts particularly bureaucracy and social injustice--are complicit in both sex trafficking and responses to it.

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