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The Dynamics of Securitisation and De-Securitisation in the European Union's Anti-Trafficking Policies: The Case of Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation

Dates:
  • Mon 19 Nov 2018 11.00 - 13.30
  Add to Calendar 2018-11-19 11:00 2018-11-19 13:30 Europe/Paris The Dynamics of Securitisation and De-Securitisation in the European Union's Anti-Trafficking Policies: The Case of Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the triangular dynamics of securitisation and de-securitisation underpinning the European Union’s policies against trafficking in women for sexual exploitation. Drawing on two main bodies of literature: critical security studies and feminist insights into prostitution and trafficking, it sheds light on the growing tendency of the European Union to conceptualise and address trafficking in women for sexual exploitation as a security issue, and on the distinct and competing approaches that coexist within feminist struggles against such trend, which largely follow the opposing views that structure feminist debates on prostitution: an abolitionist stance that is articulated predominantly from inside the European Union’s institutions and a sex-work approach that is defended mainly from outside.

Seminar Room 3, Badia Fiesolana DD/MM/YYYY
  Seminar Room 3, Badia Fiesolana

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the triangular dynamics of securitisation and de-securitisation underpinning the European Union’s policies against trafficking in women for sexual exploitation. Drawing on two main bodies of literature: critical security studies and feminist insights into prostitution and trafficking, it sheds light on the growing tendency of the European Union to conceptualise and address trafficking in women for sexual exploitation as a security issue, and on the distinct and competing approaches that coexist within feminist struggles against such trend, which largely follow the opposing views that structure feminist debates on prostitution: an abolitionist stance that is articulated predominantly from inside the European Union’s institutions and a sex-work approach that is defended mainly from outside.


Location:
Seminar Room 3, Badia Fiesolana

Affiliation:
Department of Political and Social Sciences

Type:
Thesis defence

Defendant:
Lucrecia Rubio Grundell (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences)

Supervisor:
Prof. Rainer Bauböck (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences)

Examiner:
Prof. Donatella Della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Dr. Jef P.A. Huysmans (Open University, Milton Keynes)
Prof. Emanuela Lombardo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Contact:
Monika Rzemieniecka (EUI - Department of Political and Social Sciences) - Send a mail
 
 

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