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Description

1. xxi, 246 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

1. This book explores the triangular dynamics of securitisation and desecuritisation that underpin the EUs approach to trafficking in women for sexual exploitation. That is, its progressive securitisation within the EUs anti-trafficking policies and the existence of two distinct and competing approaches that coexist among feminist struggles against such trend: a neo-abolitionist approach, on the one hand, that is increasingly defended from within EU institutions, and has thus become increasingly entangled with the securitisation of trafficking in women; and a sex work approach, on the other, that has been largely relegated to the domains of academia and civil society. As such, this book addresses the intersection of security and feminist neo-abolitionism within the EUs anti-trafficking policies, as well as the desecuritising potential of the anti-trafficking advocacy of both transnational neo-abolitionist and sex worker organisations. This book unprecedentedly brings together three bodies of literature that rarely interact: Critical Security Studies, EU Gender Studies and the feminist literature on prostitution and trafficking in women and demonstrates their fruitful interaction in an extensive empirical analysis of the EUs internal security, violence against women and anti-trafficking policies. Lucrecia Rubio Grundell is UNA4CAREER Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Series statement

1. Gender and politics

Uniform title

1. Gender and politics (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subject

1. Human trafficking > European Union countries
2. Human trafficking > Government policy > European Union countries
3. Women and human security > European Union countries
4. Prostitution > European Union countries
5. Feminism > European Union countries
6. Feminism
7. Human trafficking
8. Prostitution
9. Women and human security
10. Sex work
11. Sexual practices
12. Government policy
13. European Union countries

Call number

1. JFD 23-722

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Grundell, Lucrecia Rubio, author.

Title

1. Security meets gender equality in the EU : the politics of trafficking in women for sexual exploitation / Lucrecia Rubio Grundell.

Publisher

1. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Gender and politics
2. Gender and politics (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other form:

1. ebook version : 9783031122095

ISBN

1. 3031122089 hardcover
2. 9783031122088 hardcover
3. 9783031122095 (PDF ebook)

Research call number

1. JFD 23-722