Examining Anti-trafficking Measures: Academic Perspectives

In May 2019, SWARM hosted a three day festival to celebrate ten years of organising. This included panel discussions across a wide range of topics that impact on sex workers, and which connect and intersect with sex worker rights organising as well as broader struggles for justice. The conversations and discussions from that festival lay the groundwork for the Decriminalised Futures project.

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Examining Anti-trafficking Measures: Academic Perspectives (May 2019)

This panel brings together a group of academics to discuss existing anti-trafficking measures and interventions, examining their use and effectiveness and placing them in the context of global research. The discussion explores border externalisation measures, intersections of identity, the role of agency, and the impacts of social and systemic violence and exploitation.

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Speakers: SWARM, Dr Samuel Okyere, Dr Ella Cockbain, Dr Mirna Guha, Marjan Wijers.

Examining Anti-trafficking Measures: Academic Perspectives is the 15th panel discussion of the SWARM 2019 Festival of Resistance.

The topics included:

  • Imagining Feminist Futures

  • Radical Transfeminist Activism

  • Cops Don’t Keep Us Safe: When Survival Is Made Criminal

  • Sex Work and Migration in Europe

  • The Impact of Austerity

  • Sex Workers of Colour Roundtable

  • (Resisting) Systems of Violence

  • Sex Workers on the Nordic Model

  • Artists Talk Bodies, Visibility, and Violence

  • Radical Histories: Exploring the Archives

  • Aesthetics vs Ethics: Expanding Definitions of Feminist Porn

  • How Do Disability and Sex Work Intersect in the UK Today

  • The Future of Work

  • Technology, Surveillance and the State: How We Resist

  • Examining Anti-trafficking Measures: Academic Perspectives

  • Researching Sex Work

  • Strength, Resilience, and Healthcare

  • A Decriminalised Future

Year: 2019
Type: panel discussion
Series: swarm festival of resistance
Subject(s): trafficking borders