Annie Isabel Fukushima

Migrant Crossings

Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S.

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Produktbeschreibung

Migrant Crossings examines the experiences and representations of Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked in the United States into informal economies and service industries. Through sociolegal and media analysis of court records, press releases, law enforcement campaigns, film representations, theatre performances, and the law, Annie Isabel Fukushima questions how we understand victimhood, criminality, citizenship, and legality. Fukushima examines how migrants legally cross into visibility, through frames of citizenship, and narratives of victimhood. She explores the interdisciplinary framing of the role of the law and the legal system, the notion of "perfect victimhood", and iconic victims, and how trafficking subjects are resurrected for contemporary movements as illustrated in visuals, discourse, court records, and policy. Migrant Crossings deeply interrogates what it means to bear witness to migration in these migratory times-and what such migrant crossings mean for subjects who experience violence during or after their crossing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781503609075
• ISBN-10: 1503609073
• Artikelnr.: 53539444

Autorenporträt

Annie Isabel Fukushima is Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Division in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents and Abstracts
Introduction:
chapter abstract
Case-examples of Latino migrants who were seen as victims of human
trafficking are juxtaposed with migrant cases, where the alleged victim is
seen as a criminal. As such, the introduction opens with the stakes of what
it means for some migrants to be seen as victims of human trafficking, and
the social, political, and legal consequences of being invisible.
Therefore, the introduction introduces the reader to central concepts in
the book: criminalization, migrant labor, tethered subjectivity,
transnational feminism, witnessing, unsettled witnessing, decolonial and
migrant crossings. It also offers a summary of the book.
1An American Haunting: Witnessing Human Trafficking and Ghostly Exclusions
chapter abstract
"An American Haunting" examines transnational migration, in particular a
popularized case referred to as the "ghost case" or the "blessing scam."
The blessing scam is an internationally known where Chinese migrants were
"swindled" out of their money and jewelry. However, as a normative
narrative of criminality circulated in popular media, another story
coalesced around a story of vulnerability and victimhood. Through an
interdisciplinary and transnational feminist method, I examine how the
ghost case was a human trafficking that never was. Through a theory of
"unsettled witnessing," this chapter examines the multiple contexts of
migration, violence, labor, and informal economies to further unravel the
dichotomies that are normalized in human right's rhetoric and practice:
victim/criminal, illegal/legal, and citizen/noncitizen. Other cases
examined include United States v. Fang Ping Ding and United States v. Kil
Soo Lee.
2Legal Control of Migrant Crossings: Citizenship, Labor, and Racialized
Sexualities
chapter abstract
"Legal Genealogies of Migrant Crossings" frames how one is constituted as
trafficked by the law, its enforcement, its production through discourse,
and its social implications. This chapter contextualizes "modern-day
slavery" and U.S. trafficking laws. Due to the layers of scales in which
human-trafficking laws exist-state, nation-state, and international-this
chapter offers a mapping of human-trafficking laws and their intersections
with labor migration and racialized sexualities.
3"Perfect Victims" and Labor Migration
chapter abstract
There is a common perception of a "perfect victim" as a passive victim is
the norm in anti-trafficking discourse. This chapter explores how notions
of victimhood are tied to legality, narrative, and choice. To explore
victimhood, legal case studies of domestic servitude are examined: United
States v. the Calimlims, United States v. the Jacksons, and United States
v. the Lundbergs. The research on Filipina/o migration and diasporic
subjectivities is rich; however, few studies examine the Filipina/o
trafficking experience in the context of criminality. This chapter
juxtaposes immigrant victimhood and criminality through homosocial and
coethnic violence of Filipinas trafficking Filipinas.
4Witnessing Legal Narratives, Court Performances, and Translations of
Peruvian Domestic Work
chapter abstract
This chapter examines the case of United States v. Dann, in which a
Peruvian domestic worker was trafficked into servitude in California.
Central to this narrative is the testimony, which also must be analyzed as
an authoritative document that is performed. This chapter examines raced,
gendered, and classed dynamics between the indigenous Latina domestic
worker, Liliana, who was perceived of as vulnerable and a victim. In
contrast to Liliana, the upper-class Peruvian woman employer, Dann, was
constructed as criminal. This case study highlights a deeper understanding
of court performances and the role of crying and translation in
human-trafficking cases through a micro-case examination in the context of
macro-perceptions of human trafficking and immigration.
5(Living)Dead Subjects: Mamasans, Sex Slaves, and Sexualized Economies
chapter abstract
Trafficking subjects are like the living dead, resurrected time and again
for the living. This chapter examines how the representation of Korean
sexualities reproduce (living)dead subjects that haunt the living through
figures of the comfort woman, sex workers, and sex trafficking in the
United States. Korean Americans are addressing their socially dead status,
which continues to circulate through mass-media consumption of raids and
rescue as exemplified in the film Eden(2012) starring Korean American
actress Jamie Chung, premised on the story of a Korean American
sex-trafficked survivor.
Conclusion:
chapter abstract
Migrant Crossings ends with technologies and the image of the Cyclops.
Through the case of Operation Syclops, the closing chapter ends with
surveillance and the terms of legibility that create citizen subjects
through frames of victimhood, criminality, and notions of legality. The
technologies range from technologies of mobilizing a human rights agenda
through apps to surveillance of particular economies such as Asian massage
parlors and the U.S. border. It is a reflection of the contemporary climate
of human-trafficking laws, immigration, and the climate of terror and
insecurity in a post-9/11 era and mobile gendered subjects-trafficked
immigrant women.