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In this one-hour talk, scholar and writer Erin Kamler discusses human trafficking and its effect on women across the globe. Situating her analysis in the context of globalization, Erin explains how neoliberal capitalist practices and crises’ on the international stage have led to the rise of sex tourism and exploitation of women’s labor in the global criminal economy. Based on her extensive fieldwork in Thailand -- which includes over 30 interviews with members of the anti-trafficking NGO community, government and UN officials, human rights advocates working on the ground and trafficking survivors themselves.
Erin illustrates the factors that contribute to trafficking, and how the circumstances of trafficking affect women in their everyday lives. She shows how culture plays a large role in shaping the United States’ human rights agenda around this issue, and how the reality of trafficking is actually very different than the way it is often portrayed in the media, as well as in messages created by the U.S. State Department and others working to combat trafficking.
A doctoral student at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and fluent speaker of the Thai language, Erin studies communication issues related to the trafficking of women in Thailand. Erin has worked with anti-trafficking NGOs and in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State to research NGO communications processes in Southeast Asia. Her research has been published in a number of international academic journals. An award-winning composer, musician and playwright, Erin is also researching the use of the performing arts as a tool for political communication. Erin holds a BA in music composition from Sarah Lawrence College and a master’s in public diplomacy from USC's Annenberg School. For more information about her academic work, please visit: http://www.erinkamler.net/lectures/
Erin Kamler | Human Trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia
The trafficking of humans for purposes of sexual slavery has reached epidemic proportions. The International Organization for Migration recently estimated that 200-225,000 women and children from Southeast Asia are trafficked to other countries annually, making this region the largest source of trafficked women in the world, and in 2003 prostitution and sex trafficking comprised three percent of Thailand's economy. While NGOs (Non Government Organizations) are actively working to combat human trafficking in this region, little research has been conducted addressing how NGO communications processes contribute to their organizational impact. Based on fieldwork in Thailand and Cambodia, Erin Kamler's talk addresses the rhetoric used by NGOs working to combat human trafficking, and asks us to assess how this rhetoric situates these institutions in the global public sphere.
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