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    Aashika Damodar Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley This paper is a study of human trafficking discourse based upon ethnographic field work, policy and non-governmental organization research conducted with Polaris Project, a major anti-trafficking organization in Washington D.C. I worked with victims of “trafficking,” went on law enforcement raids to brothels in the D.C. area and observed trafficking behaviors on the major prostitution tracks. The women I interviewed became an ethnographic site, a prime locus for understanding a certain pimp-subculture, the emergence of “domestic sex trafficking” discourse and how the law affects the body and identity. The aim of my thesis is to explore Polaris Project’s approach to helping victims of sex trafficking. I explore the underlying theoretical notions of trafficking that support Polaris’ agenda of working with women in street prostitution as a representation of human trafficking conditions and trafficked individuals. First, I look at the various fields in which trafficking discourse takes shape, as an issue of immigration, prostitution and human rights. It is within these larger issues that trafficking discourse is actualized and is the source of major debates for defining human trafficking. In addition, from readings of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and other documents about trafficking, I show how anti-trafficking rhetoric has been used to portray trafficking victims as unable to escape trafficking conditions and thus require institutions such as the government or nonprofits to manage, assist, produce and actualize victims of trafficking. I look at victims of domestic sex trafficking (victims of trafficking who are U.S. citizens, or who have been trafficked within borders) as a subordinated group within the wider discourse and general narratives of human trafficking. Domestically trafficked persons are a subaltern subject without autonomy to speak about their conditions. The TVPA is focused on conditions of victimization such as poverty and other vulnerabilities that do not address the intricacies and complexities of human trafficking phenomena. The victimization framework is far too simplistic to address human trafficking activities on a broad scale. I also look at how trafficking discourse has served as a tool for identity-making. While the sex industry is ridden with stereotypes, stigmatization and victimization, trafficking discourse removes many of these problems for several survivors. In this process however, I argue that there is a severe disconnect between current human trafficking discourse, and the population to whom it victimizes. It is the case that human trafficking as defined by international and federal standards implies that human trafficking is an international problem affecting “others.” Federal legislation highly emphasize international trafficking although domestic is included. However, as Polaris and a few others have done, the term “trafficking” has been rearticulated and transformed through their service agendas to help women under pimp control by directly servicing women and also addressing hip-hop culture where the pimping phenomena is culturally acknowledged produced and glorified. Pimps are glorified by popular culture in music, TV shows, movies and magazines as well as “Pimp ’n’ Ho” parties on college campuses and the annual Player’s Balls held annually in major American cities to celebrate pimping. The glamorization of pimping makes pimps’ behavior seem innocuous, admirable or humorous.

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    Aashika Damodar Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley This paper is a study of human trafficking discourse based upon ethnographic field work, policy and non-governmental organization research conducted with Polaris Project, a major anti-trafficking organization in Washington D.C. I worked with victims of “trafficking,” went on law enforcement raids to brothels in the D.C. area and observed trafficking behaviors on the major prostitution tracks. The women I interviewed became an ethnographic site, a prime locus for understanding a certain pimp-subculture, the emergence of “domestic sex trafficking” discourse and how the law affects the body and identity. The aim of my thesis is to explore Polaris Project’s approach to helping victims of sex trafficking. I explore the underlying theoretical notions of trafficking that support Polaris’ agenda of working with women in street prostitution as a representation of human trafficking conditions and trafficked individuals. First, I look at the various fields in which trafficking discourse takes shape, as an issue of immigration, prostitution and human rights. It is within these larger issues that trafficking discourse is actualized and is the source of major debates for defining human trafficking. In addition, from readings of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and other documents about trafficking, I show how anti-trafficking rhetoric has been used to portray trafficking victims as unable to escape trafficking conditions and thus require institutions such as the government or nonprofits to manage, assist, produce and actualize victims of trafficking. I look at victims of domestic sex trafficking (victims of trafficking who are U.S. citizens, or who have been trafficked within borders) as a subordinated group within the wider discourse and general narratives of human trafficking. Domestically trafficked persons are a subaltern subject without autonomy to speak about their conditions. The TVPA is focused on conditions of victimization such as poverty and other vulnerabilities that do not address the intricacies and complexities of human trafficking phenomena. The victimization framework is far too simplistic to address human trafficking activities on a broad scale. I also look at how trafficking discourse has served as a tool for identity-making. While the sex industry is ridden with stereotypes, stigmatization and victimization, trafficking discourse removes many of these problems for several survivors. In this process however, I argue that there is a severe disconnect between current human trafficking discourse, and the population to whom it victimizes. It is the case that human trafficking as defined by international and federal standards implies that human trafficking is an international problem affecting “others.” Federal legislation highly emphasize international trafficking although domestic is included. However, as Polaris and a few others have done, the term “trafficking” has been rearticulated and transformed through their service agendas to help women under pimp control by directly servicing women and also addressing hip-hop culture where the pimping phenomena is culturally acknowledged produced and glorified. Pimps are glorified by popular culture in music, TV shows, movies and magazines as well as “Pimp ’n’ Ho” parties on college campuses and the annual Player’s Balls held annually in major American cities to celebrate pimping. The glamorization of pimping makes pimps’ behavior seem innocuous, admirable or humorous.

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    No "Pretty Woman": The Politics of The Trafficked Victim

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    Aashika Damodar Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley This paper is a study of human trafficking discourse based upon ethnographic field work, policy and non-governmental organization research conducted with Polaris Project, a major anti-trafficking organization in Washington D.C. I worked with victims of “trafficking,” went on law enforcement raids to brothels in the D.C. area and observed trafficking behaviors on the major prostitution tracks. The women I interviewed became an ethnographic site, a prime locus for understanding a certain pimp-subculture, the emergence of “domestic sex trafficking” discourse and how the law affects the body and identity. The aim of my thesis is to explore Polaris Project’s approach to helping victims of sex trafficking. I explore the underlying theoretical notions of trafficking that support Polaris’ agenda of working with women in street prostitution as a representation of human trafficking conditions and trafficked individuals. First, I look at the various fields in which trafficking discourse takes shape, as an issue of immigration, prostitution and human rights. It is within these larger issues that trafficking discourse is actualized and is the source of major debates for defining human trafficking. In addition, from readings of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and other documents about trafficking, I show how anti-trafficking rhetoric has been used to portray trafficking victims as unable to escape trafficking conditions and thus require institutions such as the government or nonprofits to manage, assist, produce and actualize victims of trafficking. I look at victims of domestic sex trafficking (victims of trafficking who are U.S. citizens, or who have been trafficked within borders) as a subordinated group within the wider discourse and general narratives of human trafficking. Domestically trafficked persons are a subaltern subject without autonomy to speak about their conditions. The TVPA is focused on conditions of victimization such as poverty and other vulnerabilities that do not address the intricacies and complexities of human trafficking phenomena. The victimization framework is far too simplistic to address human trafficking activities on a broad scale. I also look at how trafficking discourse has served as a tool for identity-making. While the sex industry is ridden with stereotypes, stigmatization and victimization, trafficking discourse removes many of these problems for several survivors. In this process however, I argue that there is a severe disconnect between current human trafficking discourse, and the population to whom it victimizes. It is the case that human trafficking as defined by international and federal standards implies that human trafficking is an international problem affecting “others.” Federal legislation highly emphasize international trafficking although domestic is included. However, as Polaris and a few others have done, the term “trafficking” has been rearticulated and transformed through their service agendas to help women under pimp control by directly servicing women and also addressing hip-hop culture where the pimping phenomena is culturally acknowledged produced and glorified. Pimps are glorified by popular culture in music, TV shows, movies and magazines as well as “Pimp ’n’ Ho” parties on college campuses and the annual Player’s Balls held annually in major American cities to celebrate pimping. The glamorization of pimping makes pimps’ behavior seem innocuous, admirable or humorous.

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    No “Pretty Woman”:

    The Politics of the Trafficked


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    Aashika Damodar
    Department of Anthropology
    University of California, Berkeley
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    Ain't no way I can control my P.I
    See why women hit the strip and wanna be my bitch (bitch)
    Break them heels off and make me rich

    Ain't no shame in my game


    I needs bitches to increase my dividends
    I'm livin in shit that looks like i'm makin the killin in
    I'm a plan maker
    I'm the man that can break a school girl down to be in the grand shaker
    In a strip club somewhere near you I makes it happen.

    They don't keep nothin dough


    They bring it straight to daddy
    You catch them stealin dawg
    You beat that ass badly

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