Fighting Human Trafficking or Instituting Authoritarian Control?

Marina Zaloznaya; John Hagan

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658244.003.0014

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Fighting Human Trafficking or Instituting Authoritarian Control?

Marina Zaloznaya and John Hagan

Governance by Indicators

Oxford University Press

07/05/2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658244.003.0014

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Abstract

This chapter considers the uses of the anti-trafficking agenda of the authoritarian government of Belarus. It identifies the ways the Belarus government uses anti-trafficking as a basis for other self-sufficient and nationalist agendas, and by making travel abroad by students and young people more difficult. It notes that the trafficking indicators of the State Department ignore other forms of human rights repression or the excesses of policing systems in Belarus. This chapter also emphasizes the relevant theme of the importance of global indicators in authoritarian contexts, an area that also lacks research.

anti-trafficking agenda

trafficking indicators

agendas

human rights repression

Belarus

authoritarian contexts

policing systems

authoritarian government

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Title: Subtitle: Fighting Human Trafficking or Instituting Authoritarian Control?
Creators: Marina Zaloznaya - Northwestern University
John Hagan
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: Governance by Indicators
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658244.003.0014
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford
Language: English
Date published: 07/05/2012
Academic Unit: Sociology and Criminology; International Programs; Political Science
Record Identifier: 9984201259602771

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